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Pieter Van Vlaanderen's relations with his father, his wife and the native girl, far from creating a tight, nooselike knot, never wholly intertwine. Considering the terrible known consequences of such an act, the affair with the girl lacks compulsion; and Pieter's relations with his wife, if clearly blueprinted, are stiltedly conveyed. When, at the end, the father harshly casts out his son and sternly seals up his house, the play comes suddenly to life, with a scene of vibrant theater. But it is still a standing broad jump of a scene, without the running start...
Trouble at Lacey builds up like a thundercloud as its people, white and black, find the knot of race too tangled for unraveling by words and seek relief in action -no matter how blind or brutal. The voice at the back door sounds insistently throughout the book; it is the plaintive, smoky voice of the Negro asking his eternal "Why?" and getting, as always, a dusty answer...
...Arriving home in Nashville after the convention, Kefauver-hating Frank Clement waved to a small knot of Kefauver fans. "Hi, everybody," said he cheerily. "We got him in." From the crowd came a loud feminine voice: "You all did everything you could to stop him!" Replied Clement plaintively: "Listen, we did all we could. If it hadn't been for us, he wouldn't have gotten in." The lady: "You don't need to tell us anything...
Finisterre's red-topped dacron spinnaker ballooned tautly in a 20-knot northeast wind, and her seven-man crew hand-rode her lovingly to catch every puff of wind as she bowled past Bermuda's St. David's Head at 9:10 a.m. one day last week. Observers were impressed with the seamanship, even though such homestretch finesse was no longer necessary-the broad-beamed little centerboard yawl had won the Newport-to-Bermuda race (on corrected time) by 11¼ minutes, the smallest yacht ever to win the Atlantic classic. It had been a rough, squally...
...should be taken to task for not giving out with the story prevalent in the Fleet concerning "31-Knot Burke." While commanding a division of destroyers, the admiral somehow got off course and ended up in a minefield. When asked by his immediate superior what in hell he was doing over in that minefield, he calmly replied: "31 knots...