Word: port
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shattered French fleet, there seemed at least a chance of honorable escape. Accompanied by three French ships of the line, Rear Admiral Dumanoir le Pelley sheeted home his sails and set off in his flagship, the 74-gun Duguay-Trouin, for the safety of a French Atlantic port. Badly scarred by gunfire from Nelson's own ship Victory, his Duguay was limping badly as she sailed southward...
Fallibility. In Port Jervis, N.Y., the repair man called in to fix the cigarette machine at police headquarters found it jammed by ten phony coins. In Powell, Wyo., Patrolman Warren Schrofel, after lecturing to 400 high-school students on traffic problems, paid a $2 fine for parking near a hydrant...
...Port: If it comes out even, it's only because the final sum is zero...
When Author Paul Bowles finishes with them in The Sheltering Sky, his first novel, Port has slipped through his zero into death by typhoid, and Kit's zero has become a noose plaited from strands of nymphomania and insanity. All this may be taken straight as simply a lurid, supersexy Sahara adventure story completely outfitted with camel trains, handsome Arabs, French officers and a harem. Nonetheless, The Sheltering Sky is a remarkable job of writing, with a craftsmanship that makes it the most interesting first novel to come from a U.S. writer this year...
...able a writer, Bowles fails to give his story much significance. Both Port and Kit are neurotic intellectual playchildren so short on real character and appeal that they seem hardly worth saving. The death of one and the madness of the other seem appropriate but by no means tragic ends. Much as she cares for Port, Kit makes love to his best friend and tripmate, Tunner, in a train compartment, again on a sand dune as Port lies dying. Kit and Port, with their indistinct backgrounds and motives, are largely novelist's puppets, and Tunner is a collard lightweight...