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...19th century heroics of the indefatigable Captain Horatio Hornblower; of a heart attack; in Fullerton, Calif. Writing, said Forester, "is a toilsome bore"; yet, with an enforced daily ritual of 1,000 words, he managed in 40 years to publish 45 books on every subject from marionettes to the slave trade, all lucidly worded, all carefully researched. Two novels, Payment Deferred and The African Queen, became film classics, and his cynical 1936 study of the military mind, The General, was reportedly Hitler's favorite novel-dejr Führer took it seriously...
...sugar industries. He was at his best when he gave in to his sense of humor. Of lower-class Hawaiians traveling on an inter-island schooner, he reported that "as soon as we set sail the natives all laid down on deck as thick as Negroes in a slave pen, and smoked and conversed and captured vermin and ate them, spit on each other, and were truly sociable." Hawaiian oranges were delicious, although "I seldom eat more than 10 or 15 at a sitting, however, because I despise to see anybody gormandize...
...last weapons of white supremacists in the South is the all-white jury, and it has nowhere been employed more blatantly than in Ala bama's Lowndes County. In the slave-built county courthouse at Hayneville last fall, separate trials only weeks apart resulted in acquittals for Special Deputy Tom Coleman, charged with the shot gun slaying of Episcopal Seminarian Jonathan Daniels, and Ku Klux Klansman Collie Leroy Wilkins, accused of murdering Viola Liuzzo, another northern civil rights worker...
Busoni did not live to see direction become destination. Worn out by half a century of continual concertizing, he died in 1924 at the age of 58. He was, in his own words, "a weak man, yet a stout wrestler, whom doubts drive hither and thither; master of thought, slave of instinct, exhausting all things, finding no answer." A Faustian figure...
...Master, a Slave. He couldn't have cared less. By the time he was 40, Bu soni was sick of performing and wanted only to compose. During the summer, when the concert circuit closed down, he wrote music like a madman; and what he wrote, though not great music, is sometimes music of great fascination and historical importance. Busoni is an important moment of transition in mu sic. He falls between two styles, the romantic and the modern. In his struggle to reconcile the two, he helped to break up the romantic tradition and in his late compositions...