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Today, more than 5,000,000 British enthusiasts are pitching at the pug (bull's-eye), and darting claims more participants than any other game in the sports-mad land. Thus when some upstart Yanks recently challenged the vaunted British there was open scorn in London pubs. "It's like snooker," sniffed one expert. "You figure that the best in Britain are the best in the world." Mrs. Jacqueline Eagan, 44, one of three American team members who survived an elimination tournament among 5,000 of the U.S.'s top tossers, figured differently: "We expect to beat...
...literary logistics involved are, to put it mildly, colossal. Winds begins in the Washington of 1939, in the mind of Commander "Pug" Henry, an upright WASP of the old school who is about to be posted to Berlin as the new U.S. naval attaché. The book ends a few days after Pearl Harbor. By that time Henry has served Franklin Roosevelt as a special observer in Germany, Britain and Russia, acquired a pregnant Jewish daughter-in-law who is still trying to escape from Nazi Europe, refused to give his foolish, flighty wife a divorce, and seen his first...
...exasperating moments, the title of an imaginary radio serial called One Man's Family Goes to War flashes to mind. Pug Henry is a useful enough American character, a blend, say, of Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith and NASA's Neil Armstrong: Godfearing, highly disciplined, pragmatic, undemonstrative, scrupulous, brilliant but unimaginative-the best we had in a time when that best seemed more adequate to deal with the world than it does today. As the book goes along, one is inclined to forgive Henry, and the author, the narrative necessities that shoot him hither and yon and miraculously equip...
...Wouk confronts great personages headon. His research has been massive; yet a sense of strain afflicts conversations with the likes of Hitler, Göring and Roosevelt. Did Wouk invent or acquire from some historical footnote that bit about the President's martinis? ("This is an excellent martini," Pug says to a beaming F.D.R. "It sort of tastes like it isn't there. Just a cold cloud.") Hitler's nervous little knee kick is familiar, but what about those "snatching, greedy fingers" as the Führer gobbles iced cakes at a reception? There are no great...
...article before she winds up winning the war. "By any major literary perspective." says a scornful Mailer, "the land of Millett is a barren and mediocre terrain, its flora reminiscent of a Ph.D. tract, its roads a narrow argument, and its horizon low." Kate is "nothing if not a pug-nosed wit," and "the yaws of her distortion were nicely hidden by the smudge pots of her indignation." As for Millett's views: "She saw the differences between men and women as nonessential-excesses of motion to be conditioned out . . . She was the enemy of sex which might look...