Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After their official Navy sedan conked out, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Robert B. Carney and the Pacific Fleet's commanding Admiral Felix B. Stump, on their way to a reception for Carney at Pearl Harbor, proceeded in a style to which they are unaccustomed. Hitchhiker Carney arrived in a small British sports car, Stump in a half-ton pickup truck...
...CLOSED HARBOR (315 pp.)-James Hanley-Horizon...
...critics' raves paid their way in royalties, a 52-year-old Irishman named James Hanley might well be one of the richest authors alive. When his novel, The Closed Harbor, appeared in Britain last year, Fellow Novelist Henry Green said of Hanley: "He is far and away the best writer of the sea and of seafaring men since Conrad, and indeed in my opinion is much superior to him." Said the Times Literary Supplement: "[One of his] greatest achievements-and of their kind there are none superior." This is a fair sample of what the critics have been saying...
...keeping the emotional wringer pressed morbidly tight, Novelist Hanley sometimes squeezes life as well as mercy out of his story. Powerful though it is, The Closed Harbor never quite proves its intended point, that the perdition of Marius is the condition...
...issue of man versus society is stated so that even the densest teen-age should be able to tell that there is more in the picture than a couple of livid love scenes and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In the first minutes of Eternity the sadistic and ambitious Captain Holmes says to Prewett, "You should know that in the Army it's not the individual that counts." The remainder of the film is devoted to a more subtle exposition of this theme, and that the only way the individual can make himself count is by preserving his integrity...