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...only walked a few paces when I stumbled upon an M.P. sitting on a sailor who had passed out in front of the Boston Public Library. The world surged into my stomach and I suddenly saw Tides of Passion as it really was. For $1.50 I had escaped for three full hours (there were several short subjects). Escape, pure and simple. At fifty cents an hour, what more could...
Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro, 66, Archbishop of Bologna, a sailor's son, is a lusty, genial fighter who organized the "flying priest" squads against the Communists. Deeply concerned with social reform, he has a left-wing reputation...
...sand became the essence of some of Dove's best work. Ferry Boat Wreck-Oyster Bay (1931) catches the essence of a lurking hulk beneath the sound's green water and the fiery color of rusting iron; Fog Horns (1929) is an abstraction of sound any sailor becalmed in a fog would recognize...
Next in a remarkable cast of lechers is Matteo Brigante, a shrewd, brutal ex-sailor whose racketeering take has made him a rich man; he really runs the village He too is after Marietta-and he frankly prefers rape to acquiescence. Among the prominent townspeople in Boss Brigante's pocket is the chief of police, Attilio, a fine figure of a man who has at one time or another seduced most of the prominent women in town in Brigante's apartment. Only Judge Alessandro, a scholarly humanist, refuses to play Brigante's way. But the judge...
Gwadar, which in the Baluchi language means Gateway of Winds, has been a haven for Arab seamen since the fabled Sindbad the Sailor cruised its coasts. The place passed into the hands of the Sultans of Muscat and Oman in the 18th century when Syed, heir to the Muscat sultanate, tried to seize the throne, failed, and fled across the Arabian Sea to escape his father's wrath. Gwadar at that time belonged to the Khan of Kalat, who welcomed Syed in princely fashion and made him a handsome offer. "You can have the revenues of as much land...