Word: piers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...making 13th century church-state politics comprehensible, and in addition has performed the stupefying task of sorting out Frederick's romances (he fathered legitimate children by several queens and was responsible for numberless bastards; in addition, making no distinction between sexes, he carried on a lifelong affair with Pier della Vigna, the lowborn lawyer who may have invented the sonnet). The novel is not, like its subject, a stupor mundi, but it is a careful, craftsmanlike job, done with intelligence and conscience...
...brimstoned about 1900 B.C. And the Bible story, as Producer Lombardo tells it, has plenty of gee whiz but very little Genesis. Lot (Stewart Granger) is shown as an athletic saint who spends most of his time improbably clobbering swordsmen with a shepherd's crook. His wife (Pier Angeli) is shown as a scarlet woman of Sodom who looks back at the destruction of her home town and is turned to-now if that's a pillar of salt the Venus de Milo is Mother Machree. And the big blast in the last reel is a low-cost...
...academic interest last week. A four-week-old strike by the International Longshoremen's Association had laid off 62,000 dockworkers from Maine to Texas, left 600 ships lying useless at anchor in Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports, and backed up some 14,000 freight cars under a pier embargo...
...deck and poured down into the hold. The Norwegian ship disengaged, and, as steel scraped steel, sparks ignited the benzole. The Mont Blanc blazed fire for a full 25 minutes before the explosion. The French crew abandoned ship. The Mont Blanc drifted across the harbor, nuzzled against a pier and set fire to it. People with minutes to live watched from harborside and rooftops. The crew of a tug mounted the Mont Blanc's decks to secure a hawser. The ship was so hot that the waters lapping it sizzled. Then it exploded...
...chances are good that when the passengers aboard Sandcastle Pier set sail, when they celebrate their hero's return by jumping up and down, that you will be grinning as delightedly as they are. Perhaps you understand why the admiral, alone and adrift on a portion of boardwalk, with cotton in his ears to prevent seasickness, quietly refuses offers of help...