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...Hemingway hero is a collector of great moments, but he refuses to acknowledge pauses or intermissions. He calls for madder music and redder wine, and if that fails, he pronounces that phase of his life dead. The activism of Hemingway's generation, politically and otherwise, and its habit of first embracing and then abandoning a person, a party or a cause, were attempts to keep the intensity of sensation at a constant peak. Duc prides himself on the fact that he never "stays put" and that "pursuit" is the prime quality of "the art of living...
...Summitry. "I had, as a private citizen, expressed some concern about . . . the growing habit of negotiations at the highest levels, because it seemed to me to be a diversion of important officials from their essential constitutional functions." But "in the light of circumstances," a President should consider a "carefully planned and well-timed program of state visits...
Slap-Happy. Most N.H.L. goalies nurse fetishes; Hall is superstitious only about not becoming superstitious. "If I find myself putting on my right skate first before a game, I'll change to the left just so I don't get into the habit of putting on the right one first all the time." During a game. Hall frets most while the Black Hawks are on the attack ("I start fighting myself, particularly if the other goalie is making a lot of great saves"). He fusses constantly over uneven ice, since the slightest bump can deflect a puck over...
...alteration of the original sound. Moreover, in pseudo stereo "you can spread the sound around the room, but there is no way to get the feeling, as in true stereo, of the proper positioning of the individual instruments." Sharp-eared listeners will detect that the Somerized orchestra has a habit of wandering about the stage: the strings may shift a bit toward center, a trumpeter may wander farther into right field. But most customers are not likely to question the illusion: the gimmicked Toscanini recordings have a luster that their mono counterparts lack...
Away from home, he began to enjoy minor heresies. He got good marks at the Academy from force of habit, but he was too busy trying (unsuccessfully) to make the varsity baseball team, too busy having a good time, to excel. He sneaked forbidden smokes, wore uniforms with well-concealed nonregulation pockets, eventually earned just about as many demerits as anyone in his class. Scholastically, he ranked in the middle brackets-breeding ground of most U.S. generals and admirals...