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...abyss below. "How poor to go to death with no more than the notes of good intention," he wrote six years ago, in Advertisements. Every scene is almost over the edge, compressed with the tension of a man who may slip from his foothold on his own sweat; so is Mailer's prose--sometimes straight narrative riding on the sheer power of events, but sometimes inflated, rhetorical, once or twice embarrassing...
...Confederate flag flies over Alabama's capitol? No sweat. When Alabama gets aid from the Federal Government, let's send it in Confederate dollars...
...former acting Master of Kirkland House, Von Stade sympathizes with the "amount of sweat that the Masters go through." And indications are that the nine men who shape the House are beginning to feel a bit soggy. Although the Masters last year rejected a proposal to overhaul the present system, the vote was reportedly very close...
...route to El Alamein, the Frenchmen sweat and struggle while the German sneers. When they are bogged down in the sand, he refuses to dig. When he begins to unbend and reaches under a seat to offer an injured man a first-aid kit, they clobber him unconscious. Shirtless and wearing German army caps, they join a German troop convoy and narrowly escape disaster when a French P.W. in the convoy recognizes one of the fugitives (France's singing idol, Charles Aznavour) as a countryman. Later, in one fine funny scene, the Frenchmen push...
Father: Forty years you sweat in the shop your kid can go to college. Ivy League, Harvard...