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...Mosley's other novels, the plot is mostly incidental, a prop for his rich characterizations and astute social observations. In Fishin', Easy emerges as an Everyman of the segregated pre-World War II rural South: semiliterate, marginally employed, the victim of numerous acts of offhand racism. He inhabits a blues-toned, all-black world of juke joints, odd jobs and broken people wrestling with the same dilemma: "If all you got is two po'k chops an' ten chirren, what you gonna do?" The answer: improvise and live with the consequences...
...estates, Nabokov never sentimentalized the old regime. Not for him the romance of serf and turf. He was above all a cultural and intellectual aristocrat, part of the Russian liberal class whose hopes for democracy were crushed by triumphant Bolshevism. Scorn for tyrants is etched on many of the pre-World War II Berlin stories, as well as others written during the '40s and '50s after he immigrated to the U.S. And woe to the poseur whose influence is based solely on personality. From Spring in Fialta: "Lean and arrogant, with some poisonous pun ever ready to fork...
...with the prevalent realisms of the 1930s and '40s in American painting. That is to say, it had no persuasive content; it was entirely free from ideology, left or right. He had studied painting with Robert Henri, whose politics were romantically anarchist. But none of the political ferment of pre-World War I New York rubbed off on him, and none shows in his work. The only painting in this show that could be guessed to show an industrial worker is Pennsylvania Coal Town, 1947; and the bald man is posed like Millet's peasant with a hoe, raking grass...
...past five years, two all-female crews have sailed the 33,000-mile Round-the-World Whitbread, the most punishing of fleet races. And on the international regatta circuit, the number of women on crews has crept up. But so far, the America's Cup -- sailed on the world's biggest, fanciest racing yachts in one-on-one matches -- has remained off limits. Although several owners' wives sailed in pre-World War II Cups, only three independent women sailors have participated in Cup trials in recent years. Was it the old saw that women bring bad luck on a boat...
...PRE-WORLD WAR I AMERICAN CLICHE HAD IT THAT "the Marines have landed, and the situation is well in hand." About 1,800 U.S. Marines begin landing in Somalia this week, the advance guard of a United Nations force probably more than 17 times that size, and the situation soon may be well in hand -- so far as distribution of food to the starving goes. But much else about what George Bush called "a difficult and dangerous job" remained murky...