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...time beyond history, on two rock-bound islands, live The Sea People (Schocken; $14.95). The Greater Island is ruled by a king, the Lesser one by an old, blind oracle. Peace reigns until the king decides to move a red sunstone. Once the rock is disturbed, the Sea People experience an absolute shower of gold. But absolute shower corrupts absolutely, and soon the islands are threatened by pride and avarice. Only the old man's wisdom can rescue them from themselves ... This familiar tale is saved from banality by the panoramic artwork of Jorg Muller and Jorg Steiner. Gull...
...words may be true as far as they go, but they hardly go far enough. No one activity has ever been able to contain the Beaver's passion; it burns in everything he says and does. "I am the victim of the Furies. On the rock-bound coast of New Brunswick," he said, recalling his Canadian youth, "the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave smashing viciously against the rock. It is called The Rage. That's me." On reaching 70, a nice round retirement number, he thundered: "I'll not give...
Samuel Taylor's rather sketchy book tells the story of David Jordon, a writer from "the rock-bound coast of Maine" and his love affair with Barbara Woodruff, the highest paid fashion model in Paris, and incidentally a Negro. David was once at the top of his profession (he had won a Pulitzer Prize for his last book eight years previously) and Barbara is at the top of hers. Europe has made Barbara what she is--in America she was just a poor girl from Harlem and George Washington High--but it has also drained David of his creative energy...
...national political career, and although his Democratic opponent for the Senate, the late James Michael Curley, belittled his youth and called him "Little Boy Blue," Lodge, at 34, won an easy victory. In his grandfather's old Senate seat, Lodge stuck to the family's rock-bound traditions, followed an isolationist course -although he advocated military preparedness. But with U.S. entry into World War II, he immediately volunteered for military service (the first Senator to see combat since the Civil War). After action with an armored force detachment in North Africa and as a liaison officer with French...
...some of the changes gradually wrought in his empire. Not long after his death, the Gannett papers endorsed a Democrat-Edmund S. Muskie, running for Governor. Editing tightened: no longer was it considered news when a Portland merchant laid fresh bricks over the old store front. The papers' rock-bound horizons expanded; one Portland staffer went to India on a fellowship, another to France...