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Allen discourses with equal ease about walruses and carpenters, shoes and ships, and, yes, sealing wax, about profits and prophets and peaceful coexistence (the Quakers invented the notion), countinghouses and fo'c'sles. Finally, in a chapter that begins on page 210, this whole sea catalogue reaches the subject announced in the second half of its subtitle: The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet...
...meeting are accurate I do not regret missing the affair. After nearly a decade of highly emotional behavior at Harvard and other colleges around major domestic and foreign crises like the Vietnam war, black militancy, and women liberation, far too many of us now consider such behavior appropriate fo any issue of deep personal concern. I for one was astounded that a meeting called to describe and evaluate the current military round in the Arab-Israel conflict was transformed into a jingoistic exercise, with protestations by several Jewish members of faculty of their frustration in not being on the battlefield...
...trouble, to make that last season at Nether Providence his best. As in seasons past, players from all-white opponent teams muttered to him in pile-ups, "Like them licks, nigger." But in the fall of 1970, Walker only laughed and said, "Look at the scoreboard, mo' fo'." We were behind only once that entire season, and then by only two points for less than two minutes, so his response flowed freely. In the fourth game of the season, it was I, ordinarily the team's voice of reason, that was fighting, and it was Walker who pulled me away...
...from which it came, and prepares to entertain the most beautiful girl himself. "In the end," writes Collier wickedly, "some sailors happened to drift into the shop, and, hearing that this bottle contained the most beautiful girl in the world, they bought it up by general subscription of the fo'c'sle. When they unstoppered him at sea and found it was only poor Frank, their disappointment knew no bounds, and they used him with the utmost severity...
...Blast. On the surface, the present warfare is a feud between Joe Colombo and Joe Gallo forces. After Colombo was hit last summer, the word passed through the underworld that the Gallos were behind it. The fact that the gunman was black seemed fo confirm the theory; when "Crazy Joe" was in New York's Attica prison for extortion, he allied himself with black prisoners and once organized a protest against white prison barbers who refused to cut blacks' hair. After he got out early last year, Gallo said he wanted to bring blacks into the Syndicate...