Word: whirlpools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME, on the edge of this whirlpool, rashly promised its readers to tell what the news meant, to get it all into proper perspective. Even more rashly, it asked to be judged not by how much information it got between its covers, but by how much it got off its pages into the minds of its readers...
News of the suspension of Swarthmore's weekly The Phoenix, because it printed an editorial on Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" stirred up a whirlpool of protest among former Swarthmore men now in University graduate schools, and Swarthmore President John Nason may soon be bombarded with letters from Cambridge attacking his cease and desist order...
Harvard is no exception. President Eliot may reform, concentration may battle distribution, General Education may arise from an academic whirlpool--but for the student, learning remains a process of absorption for 16 or fewer weeks and disgorging of knowledge for three hours at the conclusion of said process...
...fiction. The author utilizes flashbacks in a most depressing and trite manner, to show a man's supposed thoughts while he is dying of a war wound. Perhaps the last few words will give a clue to the category to which this short story belongs: "But the whirlpool began to suck him down again. It was so comfortable. So easy. Sinking back, fading...fading...
...couldn't or just wouldn't happen. Joan Webster setting to sea in a small boat with the North sea equivalent of a typhoon approaching is almost credible. The naval officer going along against his better judgment is somewhat less credible. But when they are being swept into a whirlpool with the engine completely waterlogged, it requires a stretch of the audience's credulity to accept a last minute repair job that permits the boat to chug blithely away from the whirling maelstrom. Similarly, the happy ending never would have happened had Joan Webster remained in character as the girl...