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...Stream. The lethal edge of the storm was a savage 50-60 knot gale. In rural Maryland, gusts blew a rescue helicopter to the ground, killing the pilot, after an attempt to airlift an expectant mother to a hospital. (Mother and baby survived.) In central New York, two people were found dead in their car 300 ft. from the warm refuge of a house that they could not even see in the white glare...
...Weather Bureau meteorologist blamed the blizzard on an aberration in the jet stream, the 60-200 knot current that blows from west to east at a height of 30,000 to 40,000 ft. Normally, during the winter, the stream heads out to sea around the latitude of Philadelphia, serves as a buffer between arctic cold and warm, moist southern air. This year, as if answering an airlines commercial, the stream headed on down to Jacksonville before departing the U.S., and allowed the arctic air to freeze the moisture-laden southern front on its way north. The result was already...
James Joyce demonstrated among other things that even in the works of a genius the stream of consciousness not infrequently turns out to be a Mississippi of malarkey, but the lesson seems to have been lost upon Giuseppe Berto, a well-known Italian novelist (Il Cielo è Rosso) whose obvious talents fall considerably short of genius but whose latest novel, Incubus, nevertheless opens the sluices of association and requires the reader to navigate as best he can a torrent of reminiscence, admittedly autobiographical but attributed in the text to an aging author who some years previously, on the occasion...
...glass of milk as she pores over the morning's papers. At 7:30 she has a light breakfast. Her father would not tolerate fat people around him, and the 5 ft. 2 in. Indira has done her best to remain slim. As Information Minister, she usually received a stream of visitors after breakfast who were seeking darshan (communion) or asking for redress from grievances. Her day at the office was long; most of her evenings were spent at home reading...
...Move Among Them) came from British Guiana. V. S. Naipaul (A House for Mr. Biswas) grew up in Trinidad. George Lamming (In the Castle of My Skin) is a Barbadian. In the last generation, a torrent of literary talent has come surging out of the Caribbean like a Gulf Stream of the spirit. In the new generation, the stream has been strengthened by a number of remarkable young writers-among them an important lyric poet (Derek Walcott), an insightful critic (L. E. Brathwaite) and dozens of gifted storytellers (V. S. Reid, Samuel Selvon, Clement Richer, Lydia Cabrera, Albert Helman). Many...