Word: foretopman
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University of Notre Dame William F. Buckley, LL.D., author, editor. A stowaway foretopman on the ship of state; a franc-tireur for the West and Christendom; a Burke, a Roland, a Quixote, with a whiff of Falstaff and a swing of the snickersnee...
Only when Ustinov allows the characters to establish their own identities does the pace of the picture pick up. Suddenly the viewer forgets Melville's tale of a tradition-bound society and the Christ-like foretopman. Instead, the film becomes a continuing story of three characters each unable to understand the other. Of the three, Ustinov easily dominates...
...novels are definitely vintage models which first startled the highbrow highways more than a quarter century ago. Nor do they necessarily provide a joy ride. In Joyce's The Dead, the reader will find a depressing Christmas party in lace-curtain Dublin; in Melville's Billy Budd, Foretopman, the hanging of a sailor aboard a British man-of-war of the Hornblower period; in Porter's Noon Wine, the madness and death of a farmhand and the suicide of a farmer in horse-and-buggy Texas; in Gogol's The Overcoat, the acquisition and loss...
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