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Wharfing Yarns. Mostly, however, drifting gives Jones the chance to chart the indirections of his own ironic, eccentrically ballasted mind. It is the kind of mind that can easily mingle references to Henry James, Robbe-Grillet and Li-yü with equations on dam overflow, yarns about wharf characters and slices of local history. It is the kind of mind that can see The Story of O and Thomas Merton's Seven Storey Mountain as two monastic classics and, like Mark Twain in Huckleberry Finn, revel in naming objects for their own sake. Jones' notes at the ends...
...once the battle begins, the centuries are sheared away and the red-and bluecoats are recalled with harrowing accuracy. The serried ranks of French overflow the British positions. The infantry companies form huge squares, firing at an enemy that seems, like dragon's teeth, to sow new fighters as the old ones tumble. And mud undoes both sides. Aerial cameras traverse the horizon, catching cannon and cavalry as they give the battle almost Tolstoyan sweep and power...
Stone, author of the I. F. Stone Biweekly, is well known for accurate investigative reporting of government lies and cover-ups. He talked yesterday to an overflow audience of 250 students attending Professor Leonard Boudin's Law School class, Advanced Constitutional Litigation...
...however, believes that the Soviet scientists will be permitted to accept. One man who worries that they might be is the Marin County prosecutor-but not because he has anything to hide. He simply feels that the 104-seat courtroom where Miss Davis will be tried would overflow with the Russians, their interpreters, diplomatic escorts and security guards...
...course of the three-hour meeting, which was moved to St. Paul's from the City Council chamber because of an overflow crowd, Reagan said that he had met twice with the blacks and asked them to send him a representative committee to go over the cases individually. "I refuse further comment on the individual cases because I may yet have to rule on them," he said...