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Adds Viederman: "Nothing is sacred. Even the old bawdy ballad called 'Barnacle Bill the Sailor' takes on a new look." The Russian version...
...minutes later the frightened sailor walked into the White Rose Tavern on Whitehall Street. Almost everyone in the bar was too busy watching the World Series on TV to help. When a ship's cook named Brian Quinn finally gave him a hand, Jaanimets figured he had found a friend. In a mixture of pidgin English, Russian and Estonian, Jaanimets got his message across: he was an Estonian sailor who did not want to go back to Russia. Quinn, who has a couple of Estonian friends, knew what to do. He called the Estonia Relief Committee, let Jaanimets talk...
...ring true, among people who are disturbed but vital, in scenes where lives come together, or clash, or come apart. An illegitimate young girl lives with her tramp of a mother, who soon enough runs off with a man. The girl herself has a brief affair with a Negro sailor on leave, becomes pregnant, is cared for by a young homosexual who moves in with her, and at the end is left alone to have her baby...
Morison probably writes his best about the giant hull-to-hull slugging matches in which American sailors showed their best. "Lord of himself," he said of Midway's victor, "Raymond A. Spruance emerged from this battle as one of the great fighting and thinking admirals in American naval history." Of the fight for the South Pacific, he says: "For us who were there, or whose friends were there, Guadalcanal is not a name but an emotion." Sailor-Scholar Morison, who rode eleven ships and won seven battle stars and the Legion of Merit with combat clasp while getting...
People gave Thernstrom no chance to finish sentences. He began on foreign aid to India; someone asked him about Hungary. A sailor heckled him, told him how lucky he was to be in college, then launched into a tale of ten years in the Service...