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...Miss Perkins," snapped New York's churlish Robert Moses, "is a good deal like that of habitués of a waterfront saloon toward a visiting lady slummer-grim, polite and unimpressed." Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior was constantly annoyed by her. "She talks in a perfect torrent, almost without pausing to take breath," he complained...
...torrent of action on education and the reminiscence about it that pour from the White House is forceful evidence that its occupant recalls his own school days with singular relish and vividness. Before he turned to politics in 1932 at the age of 24, Lyndon Johnson was a not-to-be-ignored student in half a dozen schools and a teacher at three levels: grammar school, high school and college...
...eminently savage in his welcome of Peter Griffiths, the new Tory M.P. from Smethwick, who had beaten Gordon Walker in a campaign marked by the ugly slogan: "If you want a nigger neighbor, vote Labor." "A parliamentary leper!" cried Wilson, bringing thunderous Tory boos, repeated interruptions, and a torrent of national criticism...
Fighting such rebellious material, Author Ashton-Warner's celebrated style -a vibrantly sentient torrent of present-tense sentences and fragments-shows signs of becoming an intrusive mannerism. Bell Call has an even worse flaw...
...ambitious and he is calculating; yet he is not cold--and that saves him. His ambition is sanguine, runs in a torrent, and the calculation is hardly more than the rock or the stump which the torrent strikes for a second, yet which suffices to direct its course. It is not so much that he calculates how he is to make his career a success--how, frankly, he is to boom--but that he has a queer, shrewd power of introspection, which tells him his gifts and character are such as will make him boom...