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...altimeter to speedometer, his brain racing through the arithmetic of destruction and the arithmetic of conservation . . . and with all his reflexes working at once, thrusting past, around, and through each other, like the notes of some terrible symphony . . . that he must conduct . . . with utter flawlessness, knowing well that one flaw will kill him." Square in the Belly . Now he had reached the tremendous climax. Suddenly "the whole setup swam sluggishly into focus" and through the water, "like a pencil stripe," ran the torpedo's wake and Swede was away, whipping, ducking, sashaying out of range of the angry guns...
Perhaps the most convincing flaw in the fantasy of the Chicago style's existence today, is the wide discrepancy in the styles of the Chicagoans. Contrast, for example, Pee-wee Russell and Mezz Mesirow, who is in partial retirement from his music, the "dirty" clarinet and the pure, reminiscent of New Orleans...
...only physical flaw is a technicality: a slow heart that beats 55 instead of the normal 75 times a minute. This kept him out of World War I when he tried to enlist-until his pastor had him ordained so that he could take a chaplain's commission. Political opponents have tried without success to smear him as a draft dodger. Otherwise the slow heart bothers no one but doctors feeling the Bricker pulse for the first time...
...celebrated and great city, very rich and respected, very wise and strong, [where the people] lived in fine palaces, some made of pure jade, some of silver, and some of emeralds without flaw...
After a life of only three weeks, the gasoline rationing plan has revealed one flaw which would wreck the whole program even if the number of consumers holding unlimited privileges were cut to the absolute minimum. The very existence of X-cards, regardless of the number of them actually issued, has made gypping so easy that there is no way of detecting...