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...says Captain Gordon Hall, watching his parka-clad deck crew scramble around on the slippery bow, "is anything to keep warm." It is 0900 hours, with a -15° F wind-chill factor, and the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Mackinaw is about to slip her berth in Sault Ste. Marie. She is headed for Whitefish Bay, a shallow and troublesome body of water leading into the treacherous inland sea that is Lake Superior. In 1975 the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald, eulogized by Singer Gordon Lightfoot, was heading for shelter in the bay through a November gale when she sank with...
...entire cast works with will and skill, and Patricia Elliott is particularly winning as a perky lady's maid with a tongue of salt and a spine of spunk. Ste phen Porter directs with stylish assurance, and equal praise accrues to Richard Wil bur, the translator-poet. His springy rhyming couplets carry scarcely a trace of melodic monotony and he turns Moliere's French into buoyantly idiomatic English...
...French of Canada, proud of their traditions and staunch in their Roman Catholicism, felt repressed by Anglo-Saxon Protestantism. In 1955, when Maurice Richard, the great Montreal forward, was suspended by Clarence Campbell, the league president, for scuffling with an official, French fans smashed shop windows along Rue Ste. Catherine. Although this was a melee, not a rational debate, popular sociologists went as wild as the fans. Les Canadiens, they suggested, were not merely a hockey team. Rather they embodied all that might have been had Montcalm, not Wolfe, carried that September...
...author is helpless. "I cannot explain the leap from juvenile verses to Sunday Morning, " she concludes, "but we have seen many intimations of its coming." Those intimations are reward enough for the Stevens appreciator. By the final chapter the creative act alone remains, as always, unreachable: in Wallace Ste vens' memorable phrase, "the palm at the end of the mind . ' ' Stefan Kanfer
...together and make Lima better - without any new taxes." In surprisingly short order, Mayor Moyer has done just that. He has started a new, moneymaking transit system with five buses complete with carpeting and ste reo. He has arranged for welfare recipients to clean streets and plant shrubs, ivy and trees. He has encouraged the Neighborhood Youth Corps to patch up the old train station, thereby enabling Amtrak to reopen it for passenger ser vice a year ahead of schedule...