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...over seventy years, since the days when it ranged from a mudflat to tidal torrent twice daily, the Charles has been the playground of youthful Harvard galley slaves. Before the turn of the century, boat clubs made rowing attractive; over five hundred undergraduates used to pull oars, and many more thronged to the crew races...
...term these days, so you'd better just call me an independent." He wrote a letter to "Dear Mr. Mao" urging the Red leader to disband the Red army if and when the Communists joined the government. Now, five years later, the mainland Reds spewed out a poisonous torrent of calumny against him, and Chinese neutralists in Hong Kong and Singapore, who sigh for a nonexistent third force, sulked because Hu had ignored them...
Then came the rally. Hitler's favorite paratrooper, General Bernhard ("Papa") Ramcke, 63, was supposed to give a three-minute talk-for old times' sake. Instead, he launched a savage attack on the "real war criminals"-the Western Allies. The criminals, Ramcke bellowed into a swelling torrent of applause, "are not the German front-line soldiers . . . They are those who made the Versailles Treaty . . . who shattered German cities . . . who dropped atomic bombs on Nagasaki . . . who are producing new atomic bombs...
...week's end the summit of White Horse was a churned and stinking shambles, littered with the dead of both sides. Under the torrent of shells, trenches and bunkers had disappeared. "Nobody," said a U.N. officer, "can hold the top of that hill." So long as nobody held it, White Horse was a U.N. victory...
...Gary's singular explanation of what he thinks he is doing is drowned and swept away in the torrent of what he actually does. From the pregnant chaos of his books something better and more beautiful emerges than a neat pseudo-world of ideas: he has "created" human' beings, men, women & children, alive and kicking...