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Reeves also invited selected delegates and other conventioneers to keep diaries, and the material selected from these forms the thread of continuity through what is basically a stream of anecdotes. Thus the diarists are stuck with stupid appellatives--Clare Smith, a 17 year old high school student from Ohio, becomes The Youngest Delegate; Fritz Efaw, an ex-MIT student now living abroad, becomes The Draft Dodger Delegate; Dick Celeste, Ohio's lieutenant-governor on the way up, becomes The Young Pol. And friends, one may be assured that after over 200 pages and the deaths of a lot of trees...
Only by the nimblest sophistry could slavery be countenanced in a "civilized" society like 18th and 19th century America. Slavery has tortured American historians for generations: slavery theses and revisions of them have writhed through the stream of historiography for 150 years or longer...
...prose moves fitfully at best, is downright turgid at worst, and is obviously better suited to the front page of a New England town newspaper than the inside of a classy $10 hard-back. Always the reporter, he is long on detail and short on interpretation. An endless stream of names, places, death tolls and other gruesome details flashes past, making the book itself a hurricane of facts that often leaves the reader bewildered. There is no real weight, no meaning attached to the cyclone of detail--and when Allen attempts an occasional bit of philosophy, the effort just seems...
...product of that unusual pattern is this winter's wild weather. According to Namias, the jet stream has been picking up Pacific storms and guiding them across the U.S., "pepping up" each one as it crosses the country. The resulting heavy snowfalls that have accumulated on the ground in Eastern states further refrigerate Arctic air as it moves down from Canada. The snow covering also contributes to the dramatic difference between land and water temperatures, which in turn stimulates more storms along the East Coast-including the nor'easters that have been battering oil tankers. All the while...
...water temperatures in the Pacific rose a few degrees higher than normal last fall off the west coast of North America, while dropping off in midocean. He believes that these temperature shifts influence the winds and determine the course of storms that work their way up to the jet-stream level. Harry Geise, a California meteorologist, blames the storms and frigid temperatures on a high-pressure zone of warm air hovering off the country's Pacific coast and sometimes shifting over land...