Word: ship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). World light-heavyweight champion ship, with Bob Foster v. Andy Kendall, live from Springfield, Mass...
...refusing to authorize a court-martial or official letters of admonition for the principal officers of U.S.S. Pueblo, Navy Secretary John Chafee indicated that they could live happily ever after in the service. But Lieutenant Edward R. Murphy Jr., the spy ship's executive officer, figured that his future had fizzled when the Navy refused his request to be assigned to the service's postgraduate school in Monterey, Calif. Last week he resigned his commission...
...Pueblo's personnel problems over. Although the U.S. does not physically possess the vessel or have any hope of getting it back soon, regulations require that every ship in commission have a commanding officer of record. The Navy is now looking for someone on whom to bestow the responsibility. The change of command promises to be awkward and piping the new captain aboard will be a problem, but Navy regs will be served...
Slightly pedantic word play, cultural booby traps, brisk leaps from the Bard of Avon to the Good Ship Lollipop, elegant divertissements for all occasions ?such things can be expected of Nabokov. But that is far from all. Russian by birth, a U.S. citizen who now lives in Switzerland, he has become, at 70, the greatest living American novelist, and the most original writer and stylist since Joyce. He is also an exile, a man who has triumphantly survived this century of the refugee, a man who has lost everything, yet transformed his losses through art and levity into...
...cuts to a high angle of Mudd thrashing about on his bed--a dark strip running down the center of the frame surrounded by the grey emptiness of the floor (expressionism approaches surrealism). He rises and, in a stunning melodramatic sequence, directs his men to fire on an American ship in order to force it to land medical supplies on the disease-ridden island (romanticism). He recovers, is freed, and returns home to his family and country home (lyrical Griffith-evoking classicism). American classicism as we know it is reserved for the ending and two early scenes in Mudd...