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...lines in perfectly controlled harmony. Tragedy, humor, severity, flippancy, in Belloc's view, must go hand in hand in literature, as they do in life. So, when one of his Four Men puts to the others the question, "What is the best thing in the world?", the Sailor answers: "Flying at full speed . . . and keeping up hammer and thud and gasp and bleeding till the knees fail and the head goes dizzy." But the Poet says: "[The best thing in the world] is a mixture [of] great wads of unexpected money, new landscapes, and the return of old loves...
There were plenty of technical problems, including the theoretically fatal one of an all-male cast. Billy Budd, the innocent young sailor who represents good in the allegorical struggle with evil, stands in sharp contrast with the wicked Master-at-Arms, Claggart. But Captain Vere had to be "tidied up," made into a more central symbol of conflict: he knows that Billy was framed, but he also knows that under the Articles of War Billy must hang for striking Claggart...
...salt water before -the chief said: "Cap'n, I'd swap 'em all for a bucket of oily rags." But the kids (average age 21) learned fast. Gently but firmly, Gallery instilled in them a sense of duty, and of discipline. He taught them that every sailor carries the responsibility for other men's lives-even the captain of the head (who cleaned the toilets)-and he told them yarns to prove it. There was prayer every morning, and not just before battle. "It was poor psychology, as well as bad theology, to wait until...
Bishop expected tougher opposition from Princeton. "Bud" Foulke is the Tiger's number one sailor, taking first place in the individual Raven Class Championship at last October's Pine Trophy meet...
Greatest rival, and at the same time greatest friend of the Crimson yachtsmen, is Tech. As a friend, Tech provides them with all the boats and other facilities they use, free of charge. A Harvard sailor has only to check in his club membership card at the MIT pavilon, and the get his dinghy...