Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After that trip, I've sailed on deck, with what is usually considered a better class of people. It might be profitable to explain ship (union) politics, or the sickness of the shipping industry, or what one actually does on a watch. (For the last item, as an ordinary seaman: 4 hours lookout, 2 hours standby and general labor, and perhaps 2 hours wheel-watch). But I'm seeking what is specific to the summertime sailor's experience; of which an infuriating helpless sympathy is a large part. They condemn you and your innocence, and still worship your education; Beretta...
...this isolation-in-the-self come out; at least two that I saw. One was a self-possession that I began to see in my friends and in myself; wherever we were, we began to know who we were. Which is not to say we overrated ourselves, as the seaman doesn't stand too high. But having been flung about we knew how to roll; and lost in the cold woods outside Antwerp or thrown into polite high living at the AMVJ in Rotterdam, we could stand with these formidable foreigners and make conversation, and get the hell back. That...
Crying Colonialism. Less obvious but more ominous is the growing isolation of President Abeid Karume. A moder ate, ineffectual leftist, the former merchant seaman proved no match for the wily, anti-Western machinations of Peking-leaning Foreign Minister Abdul Rahman Mohamed, better known as "Babu," and Moscow-trained Vice President Kassim Hanga. Solidly supported by a cadre of younger Marxists, Babu and Hanga now control half of the Revolutionary Council, can usually work their will and twist any issue simply by crying "colonialism." They were able to replace Treasury Secretary Herbert Hawker, a Briton, with an East German Communist "adviser...
Author Richard Jessup, a former merchant seaman from Savannah who once worked as a dealer in a gambling joint in Harlem, tells a cool, good story. His language is as spare as the language of the men he is writing about, but his work has the topography a novel needs...
...fishermen are not the only ones whose tempers have been rubbed as raw as a seaman's salt-sanded hands...