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...wild-eyed dream," then drives his argument home with a trip hammer. With nary a dissenting voice, the seagoing Indians are variously described as "Ganges scum," "starving bastards," a "stinking mob" and a "filthy mess." The only praise in the novel goes to some doomed white hunters who hap pily kill unarmed Indians. Whatever Raspail's private views of nonwhites, he clearly has not a minute to waste on nuance. The danger, as he sees it, is too near. The horrible miscegenation he fears infects his very metaphors: "The tidal wave fleeing the south has paused briefly to catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poor White Trash | 8/4/1975 | See Source »

...Unlike The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin (TIME, Dec. 31, 1973), which lasted twelve hours and centered on painterly images evolving in glacially slow motion and almost total silence, Queen Victoria consists mainly of verbal anarchy. In a typical scene, characters shoutingly reiterate the following word-sounds contrapuntally: "HAP-HATH-HAP-HAP-HATH - O.K., O.K., A-O-K, O.K., O.K. - SKY-SKY." This sort of thing is punctuated by screams of primal therapy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Exquisite Anarchy | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

...Hap Moore Trophy competition Sunday, Harvard's four-boat team finished third in overall scoring against six other schools...

Author: By Robert T. Garrett, | Title: Harvard Sailors Drop Debut | 9/24/1974 | See Source »

Flowers in turn was an important influence on the Republicans in the group. At a Sunday meeting, he told the undecided seven, "This is something we just cannot walk away from. It hap pened, and now we've got to deal with it." Recalled Caldwell But ler later: "I knew at that second he was right." Butler, whose Virginia district is heavily pro-Nixon, made his decision soon after a visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Fateful Vote to Impeach | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

...Sunday it was back on the Thames (they don't say Tems in New London) for the Hap Moore Trophy event and shifty (this is not a moral judgement) breezes...

Author: By Michael C. Winerip, | Title: Crimson Posts Second, Third In Weekend Sailing Regattas | 9/25/1973 | See Source »

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