Word: seamans
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Eliot H-52: Harvard seaman Clayton P. Bischoff ’03, who is preparing to sail in the national singlehanded competition, thinks crew is a bunch of crap. “Those wusses have oars and, like, forty guys in their boats,” he gripes. “I just have the wind and one little girl...
Experts agree that the key to facing down fear is knowledge: find out as much as possible about the mechanics of flight and plane safety systems as well as the causes of anxiety. Equally invaluable?however frightening?is experience. Debbie Seaman, who beat her own fear of flying at the Qantas clinic in Sydney and went on to write The Fearless Flier's Handbook, says: "Most of all, if we don't 'get back on the horse,' we're helping the fear take over. A phobia erodes self-esteem in other areas of life and spreads like a cancer...
...nearly 100 interviews the filmmakers conducted with survivors. But while Pearl Harbor gets a lot of things right, it gets others wrong, and finally doesn't paint a clear picture of the attack or the political events leading to it. "Overdone overkill," says Raymond Emory, who was a seaman on the Honolulu and is now, at 80, a historian for the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association. "No nurses got killed. No torpedo planes late in the attack. Too many small explosions, not enough big ones." Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay counter that they are not making a documentary...
...with the sea, all the romance of it, since I was a child. Everybody in Liverpool had somebody in the family who went to sea. You looked at other people, and they seemed like little gray people who worked in offices and taught in schools. We had these drunken seaman uncles who were larger than life, who would come back in bright, gaudy, secondhand suits they bought in Palm Beach. They had money, you know, and they'd throw it 'round when everyone else was careful...
...Barrett Seaman...