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Liverpool Conrad. The narrow line between private reveries at the window and actually stepping over the sill threads subtly throughout the book. As in a great deal of good fiction, the novel grows out of character, not plot or theme. Those who have read any of Hanley's more than 40 other novels should not be surprised. At 73, he is one of the most consistently praised and least-known novelists in the English-speaking world. Born in Dublin and raised in Liverpool, Hanley became a merchant seaman at age 13, just before World War I. He is self...
...Macy's window sill...
...that first day, I had never heard of jimmies. I was nervous to a peak, trying to play down my own feelings of pride at having arrived at the great mecca of learning, the university with the golden streets. I put my Sony clock-radio on the window sill and raised the first floor window full-height. My parents, yes, they were there, horrified, reminding me that Cambridge is full of crime. My radio would be stolen by a meandering hand at any moment. I scoffed. And then I moved the radio...
Construction on the new barracks has already begun at Fort Sill, Okla., Fort Hood, Texas, and Fort Carson, Colo. Three other posts will start on new quarters this year, and 15 more are slated for barracks renewal in 1974. Comments Army Chief of Staff General Creighton Abrams, who undoubtedly has known drabber digs: "It is a splendid design. It is admirably suited to both male and female soldiers and will make their lives better, happier and healthier." Which raises the question of whether co-ed dorms are next for The Modern Volunteer Army...
...sill lingered when, earlier this year, the U.S. Olympic Committee announced that the U.S. would no longer choose its crew team by the boatload. Olympic coach Harry Parker, who had carved out a well known niche for himself in U.S. rowing circles with his coaching exploits at Harvard, threw out the old method of selecting infact the best U.S. eight for the Olympics. Instead Parker brought in the individual selection process, the system that had made East Germany and New Zealand centers of power in the rowing world. Parker and the U.S. Olympic Committee, discouraged by the steady downhill slide...