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...elder Caulkins finally decided to quit swimming for a while so that she could devote her energies to water polo and escape from her sister's long shadow. After she moved out to California to train, the older sister's efforts paid off as she made the World Cup water polo team that summer and was subsequently offered full scholarships to college in both swimming and water polo...
Peace Breaks Out is a study of a "lost generation"-- the young men who just missed World War II; who grew up in its shadow, paralyzed by youth, full of violence and rage, and suddenly lacking an enemy. Knowles protrays this generation as "riddled with guilt" and trapped by frustration. Having always assumed they would be called upon to fight, these young men discover a compulsion to fight. The Devon boys are determined to defeat a foe at all costs--to crate a foe if need be--and then to destroy...
Workers and government square off in the shadow of Soviet tanks...
...prosecution because Anna had voluntarily accompanied some of the boys to their surfside tent - and smoked marijuana with them - before the attacks began. The prosecutor asked, "How much torture must a woman endure before she is believed?": But Anna's imprudence was apparently enough to stir a shadow of doubt in the jurors' minds. After deliberating for only five hours, they found all four teen agers not guilty. The judge accepted the verdict and complimented the jurors: "They were very conscientious. They followed the law." In the face of the post-trial indignation, however, a few members...
...been noted how quickly they can move up and down the Fahrenheit scale, from a sultry 85 or so to a frigid ten below zero. Some of the chill is shyness. When she was younger she used to go to parties and hide in the shadow of her second husband, Michael Wilding. One night Humphrey Bogart told her to sit by herself and make people come to her. She did-and people now hover around her-but a trace of that early reticence remains nonetheless. Part of her reserve is a learned, animal response to prying reporters. "I have...