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This is a promising first novel that breaks a lot of its promises. It promises a richly informative account of voodoo and the Haitian mind and temper, but much of it is just tom-tommyrot. It promises distinction of thought, but a jungle growth of involuted sentences often chokes meaning in mannerism. It promises a clash between the life of instinct and the life-in-death of inhibition, but the conflict is reduced to a kind of nagging suburbanality about a dissatisfied wife. Still, the tropical scenery is far more fascinating than most suburbs...
...obsessed with the notion that her pregnancy has been forced upon her by the black magic of the land's fierce sensuality. She flees to a sorcerer and dies in abortion. For a year, Owen's "chaste maple syrup soul" is frozen. Then he attends a frenzied voodoo initiation, slips into an illicit affair, takes to drink, and the tropics claim another victim...
Streaking over California's Mojave Desert at an altitude of 39,000 ft. one ay last week, Air Force Major Adrian . Drew pushed his F-ioiA twin-jet McDonnell Voodoo to full throttle and full afterburner, broke the world's official aerial speed record. Previous record, flown in March 1956 by a British Fairey Delta: ,132 m.p.h. Drew's official time, an average of one pass into the wind and one ass with it: 1,207.6 m.p.h...
...slowpokes were the other two Voodoo pilots: Captain Ray Schrecengost, 31, flew the round trip at an average speed of 671.4 m.p.h.; Captain Robert Kilpatrick, 32, flew the first leg (landing at McGuire) averaging 765.68 m.p.h. Rewards for all four: the Distinguished Flying Cross to Sweet and Klatt, Air Medals to Schrecengost and Kilpatrick...
Elias Murambodoro's father was frightened. What kind of son, he wondered, had he put into the world? The boy had begun to talk unusually early, and the father finally concluded that voodoo must be to blame. Throwing mother and child out of his hut, he disappeared into the bush...