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...child of both centuries, Karen embodied the strictures of the old and the morale of the new. She obeyed a series of mottoes: "It is necessary to sail, it is not necessary to live"; "Be bold. Be bold. Be not too bold." Another, often repeated, writes Thurman, was that the final word as to what you are really worth "lies with the opposite sex." That value was assayed in a series of lifelong flirtations, romantic failures and a doomed marriage to her cousin Bror Blixen. The couple quixotically exchanged Bror's family farm in Denmark for acreage in Kenya...
...understand why your story on John Updike did not mention his imagery. Anyone who has read Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu will long remember sentences like this one: "The crowd, like an immense sail going limp in a change of wind, sighed with relief...
Author-Editor-Raconteur-Gadfly William F. Buckley Jr. has already delighted friends and charmed critics with his account of a joyous transatlantic sail in Airborne (1976). So why, five years later, is Buckley charting the same course? Because, as he explains, "the wedding night is never enough." Or, to put it less metaphorically, the first trip and book were so successful that Buckley could not resist the temptation to set sail all over again...
...hulking, gray floating village of some 1,200 souls, the British carrier Invincible returns to Portsmouth, England, this week. It will be 166 days since it first set out for the Falkland Islands-the longest continuous tour at sea of any British warship since the days of sail-and among those eager to join family and friends will be a helicopter pilot named Prince Andrew Albert Christian Edward, 22, a veteran of numerous dicey adventures during the conflict. "I was airborne at the time the Atlantic Conveyor was hit," he recalls. "I saw it being struck by the missile...
...evacuated from Lebanon, and 3,625 Syrian soldiers had been moved by convoy from West Beirut to the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon. When U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut was informed on Wednesday that the last chartered ship, the Mediterranean Sun, had received clearance from the Israeli navy to sail for the Syrian port of Tartus with 700 Palestinians, the Marine operator replied, "O.K., well done. Now let's go home." That afternoon U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger announced in Beirut that the Marines would be leaving the Lebanese capital within a few days. Mission accomplished...