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...face and short arms stops jumping up and down. Then he nudges the man standing next to him, says: 'How's golf been, Harry?' Before Harry can answer, a redheaded messenger dashes up, hands him a pink slip. Harry reads it close to his chest, yells: 'Sell July one. Sell July one.' The red-faced man and a dozen other traders rush him, wave their hands at him, shout in his face, scream in his ears, tug at his sleeves, dance up and down before his eyes. They want to buy an eighth...
...have much of the kind of energy which usually distinguishes powerfully talented novels. Yet it shines bright and steady beside many novels which have such energy. It has none of the death-neurosis or neurotic heroics of Malraux; none of the softness of Steinbeck or Hersey; none of the chest-thumping and little of the romanticism of Hemingway. It is the work of a good rather than of a possibly great novelist; it is also the work of a mature and intelligent...
...modern machines of U.S. and British oil companies clank around their borders. But the Motilones, not budging an inch, go right on in the old ways: slipping through the tangled jungle, invisible as the wind, silent as their heavy arrows that can slam through a grown man's chest and out the other side...
...Confiscate Anything." A short walk beyond, Housewife Yu Chi-ping is sweeping debris from the dark cliffside cave in which her family lives. The table, two chairs, and a chest are gone, Yu laments. The water jar and crockery are smashed. There comes to mind the Communist high command's directive before the Communists withdrew: "To keep our troops fit... confiscate anything. . . . For firewood we shall use doors, windows, furniture. . . . Cooking vessels must be carried away. What can't be destroyed must be buried. . . . We must sacrifice for our sacred land of democracy and our president...
...Dodgers longer than any other club to play a nine-inning game. The Dodgers seem to thrive on continuous hubbub; their rivals don't. Explains Leo: "When I'm out on that field I like nobody but the guy who's got Dodger written on his chest. Now afterwards, sure, I'll take one of the other team out and buy them dinner, but during the game I hate them...