Word: porting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Third Avenue are tedious professionals) and with the talkers of Elizabethan England, if their playwrights bear true witness. In writing about such magnificent lingoists, color threatens to overwhelm shape, as it very nearly did in Naipaul's roguish first novel, The Mystic Masseur. In these sketches about Port of Spain, he lets shape find its own way home. This makes it hard to tell just how good a writer he may be, but the color, at least, is brilliant...
...much-admired fraud named Bogart off to jail for nonsupport, his friend Hat gives an eloquent explanation of why Bogart had left his wife in a distant village and returned to strut about Miguel Street: "To be a man, among we men." Laura, Bogart. and a few more of Port of Spain's people deserve another look...
...Brigadier General John Reed Kilpatrick, 70, longtime (1933-55) showman-president of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden; of cancer; in Manhattan. A Yale football great and All America ('09-'10), Kilpatrick was on the AEF general staff in World War I, commander of the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation in World War II, won a proxy fight for control of the languishing Garden...
...series), Snow deals with scientists and their troubled consciences in the Atomic Age. As in The Masters (No. 4), the setting is a university that might be called Oxbridge, whose High Tables have been rocked by a scandal that will not down with the port...
...highway drawbridge, knocking it eight inches out of line. Three other ships missed lock approaches and ran aground. At the head of the lakes the Norwegian freighter Dagfred won the race to pick up the season's first grain cargo-and slammed its bow into a Port Arthur grain elevator. As one British tanker skipper said wryly: "The season has opened with a bang...