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...became a serious stripling who could blandly paraphrase William James to a sobbing nine-year-old sister ("If you cry you will feel bad, and if you feel bad you will cry"). He could swim the 2½ miles across Henderson Bay, and when the family acquired a small sailboat, he became an expert boat handler, weather forecaster, navigator of the coves of eastern Lake Ontario...
...best small sailboat racing in the country is in Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound, perhaps because these two bodies of water boast fresh, moderate winds almost every day of the summer...
...rest of the Advocate is mediocre. James Chace's "The Mariner," a story about a little boy in a sailboat who finds a body, is a humid mass of sensory impressions thrown like a wet rag at the reader; the boy, boat, and body get lost in the flood. William Morgan's "The Cowgirl" is a long synoptic anecdote about a girl from Alabama who goes to New York with a man named Goldstein and ends up shooting at him through a bathroom door. The humor of the piece hangs largely on the contrast between the girls' quaint narrative style...
Handsomely photographed in its stark setting of rock and sea, the picture is studded with memorable scenes. One sequence showing a woman in childbirth on a heaving sailboat makes Roberto Rossellini's handling of a similar scene...
...inspiration for The Dutchman came to Wagner during a seasick voyage in a small sailboat through the Baltic...