Word: slocum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yorker Justin Scott spent two years researching and writing The Ship-killer. It shows. His saga of the battered, unyielding Carolyn is as heady as Francis Chichester's narrative, with a draught of Melville and a slosh of Josh Slocum. His choice of villain is a shrewd one. Leviathan is even more dangerous and ungovernable than any vessel described in Noël Mostert's Supership. Scott, who has published five previous novels, limns his driven people as stylishly as his boats. As for Peter Hardin, he will surely name his next sloop Ajaratu...
...tapes for bookworms are grouped arbitrarily in six main categories: Americana (e.g., H.L. Mencken, Ring Lardner), Classics (Henry Thoreau, Mark Twain), Contemporary Fiction (Joseph Wambaugh, Irving Stone), History and War (Alan Moorehead, Hanson Baldwin), Fiction (Louis Auchincloss, F. Scott Fitzgerald) and Travel and Adventure (James Ramsey Ullman, Joshua Slocum). Current best renter of the more than 80 available titles: Walden. B.O.T. pays authors or their estates 10% of its rental fee and calls its service, not immodestly, "the thinking...
...excellent campaigner of the type we need. The President is not the attacker type, but Bob can do that kind of campaigning." He also can be abrasive and slashing to opponents, though his sense of humor alleviates some of the sting. Cracks Minnesota Republican Chairman Chuck Slocum: "We've got righteous Jimmy, dull Walter and stuffy Jerry. Bob Dole will add some zip to the campaign and prevent it from being dull...
...great Yankee skipper Joshua Slocum used only the simplest of navigational instruments-a compass, a sextant and his famous "dollar clock"-when he sailed his 37-ft. Spray round the world alone from 1895 to 1898. The solitary skipper of a spanking new sloop called the Oxy will find his life at sea far easier than Slocum's when he sails in a singlehanded race across the Atlantic next year. If he wants to relax and leave the helm, all he will have to do is flip a switch on an electronic self-steering device; day or night...
...naturally pleased, since he acknowledges a literary debt to such sources as The Children 's Reader, the annual reports of corporations, and R.D. Laing. What will he do next? He does not know, though he would like to do it in three years, if possible. Then the Slocum-Heller angst sets in. "I am afraid I may never get another idea that will turn into a novel...