Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Borneo to see how his troops were faring. He found them hard at work-so hard that at one Filipino hamlet he got a message from four volunteers saying: "Sorry, but we are too busy to see you." At another village, a volunteer proudly showed Shriver a pungent compost pile he had collected to demonstrate the wonders of fertilizer to local farmers. "Just feel that heat, sir," enthused the volunteer as Shriver gingerly patted the reeking mound. At tour's end in Singapore, Shriver gratefully shucked his beat-up sneakers, khaki pants and sweat shirt for a natty tropical...
...interns are nonetheless doing not only first-rate jobs, but are also shaking up their elders in the best tradition of youthful inquisitiveness. Two or three times a week, the students pile into seminar rooms to shoot sticky questions at Capitol eminences, most of whom enjoy the battle and are likely to accept an invitation to continue it over spaghetti in Georgetown...
...manages, better than any of the other block-busters I have seen, to describe the life of a hero, and the growth of his legend. Perhaps because the great Spanish champion was precisely the sort of popular hero movie stars are today, El Cid is much more than the pile of irritating evasions and distortions that largely made up a Ten Commandments or (gasp) King of Kings...
...terrain itself provides the ultimate drama, beauty and terror of the film: cascading rock-strewn rivers that can smash an outrigger like a coconut shell, the green deep-pile carpeting of the rain forest, so dense that only needles of sunlight ever filter through to the dank jungle floor, the incessant droning whine of insects, and the voracious, slimy leeches, the size of amputated little fingers, that have to be burned off the skin. In New Guinea, the cruelest headhunter is still Nature...
Perhaps writers should solve the second-book problem the way architects solve the 13th-floor problem. By skipping directly from first book to third, an author could avoid the mantraps invariably laid for the second: his own crippling desire to pile wonder upon wonder; and the phenomenon of suddenly small-hearted critics, eager to deflate what they can no longer discover. By the third book, of course, the writer has seen his limits, and forgiving critics are willing to let him develop at his own pace...