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...infinity, has no, not four or 20 but a human two arms and two human legs--not far from reality, now, but the train is leaving, and the dancing vortex of consciousness in the back seat, the Ginsburg #1, stops his contortions to point like a land-sighting sailor at the topmast and shout--"Human!", and it is so, this desert space contracts in purpose on this lonesome figure and even Ginsburg #2 stirs and wakes long enough to speak: "Man, what would happen if Richard Nixon turned on? I mean, if he just had one joint...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: On the Road | 11/10/1987 | See Source »

...million monument was funded by more than 80,000 donations. Ringed by stone benches and cascading fountains, the plaza depicts a map of the world and its oceans in two-tone, inlaid granite. At one edge stands a bronze statue of a pea-coated sailor, a stark tribute that captures the loneliness of the vast, restless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington: A Salute to The Sailors | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

...week, he had reason to smile. The previous day the Prime Minister had signed an agreement with Sri Lankan President Junius R. Jayewardene that promised to end a brutal civil war. But as Gandhi passed the white-uniformed men of a Sri Lankan naval honor guard, one of the sailors broke ranks and swung at Gandhi with the butt of his rifle. The Prime Minister caught a glancing blow in the back and stumbled. Guards quickly hustled Gandhi away and hauled off the bellicose sailor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If This Is Peace . . . | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

...their hands full trying to keep their own unhappy forces in line. Said an enlisted man: "I have been wearing this uniform for four days. But what use is it? I am unable to support my own people." Obviously, though, dissent was not far from the surface: the sailor who attacked Gandhi was a Sinhalese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If This Is Peace . . . | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

...sales in France that Pivot reigns as the most influential literary figure in the country. "Ask a publisher or bookstore owner what it would be like without Pivot," declared the French newsmagazine Le Point, "and then look at the expression on his face. It's one of a lone sailor at sea who's just lost the mast of his ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Carson of the Literary Set | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

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