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...Diego, when we were being assigned to ships, I said, "What the hell is the Oglala?" This young kid says, "It's an old minelayer. An old tub. I got the battleship Arizona." He's still on it. His name is Arthur Blais...
This tradition operates on the principle of "every tub on its own bottom," whereby each school raises its own funds, balances its own budget and sets its own course...
Last spring, he suggested "every tub on each other's bottoms." This fall, he mentioned "more links between the tubs...
...long ago, have been unthinkable. For nearly 40 years, Gordimer has spoken out against apartheid, that crazy quilt of laws and restrictions that enabled the white minority to control and suppress the country's black majority. She has done so in her fiction, although subtly and without tub thumping; she portrays the strains of racial divisiveness and oppression by monitoring their effect on individual characters, recognizable lives. As a private citizen, Gordimer has often engaged in more direct opposition to her government's policies...
Katharine Hepburn is an odd bird. Hemorrhaging after an eye operation, she yells to her chauffeur, "David, take off your shoes and socks and your pants -- and get into the tub and try to get the blood out of the stuff I throw in there." With her lover Howard Hughes, two of the skinniest eccentrics of our time, she dives naked off the wing of his seaplane. In a chapter about another beau, the agent Leland Hayward, Hepburn talks about living in Los Angeles' Coldwater Canyon, living in Benedict Canyon, finding a snake in her living room, buying real estate...