Sublime

In his role as elder statesman, he buttressed Kennedy at the time of the Cuban missile crisis, and refrained from criticizing Lyndon Johnson over Vietnam.

He had no university education, but he read Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire three times before he was twenty-five.

L’équipage était ravi, la météo était enfin favorable pour que l’on passe le Cap de Bonne-Espérance. Jusqu’à présent, nous n’avions exploré que la côte ouest de l’Afrique du Sud, baignée par l’océan Atlantique. Désormais, on rêvait de l’océan Indien. Ces deux océans sont des frères ennemis. L’Atlantique Sud et son eau froide rencontrait l’Indien au

countenance.

had to go through all the action, leaping waves and haring around bends repeatedly until they had all captured it for posterity. It was about half an hour before lunch when the moment of sadistic inspiration came. I suggested they should stay in a fixed position, while Tommy Lane, who plays one of the black baddies, and I made motorboat passes befo

As Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, Coen was destined to become his lifelong adversary.

Clark, one of the factors, survived four water sessions

There are many shades in the danger of adventures and gales, and it is only now and then that there appears on the face of facts a sinister violence of intention—that indefinable something which forces it upon the mind and the heart of a man, that this complication of accidents or these elemental furies are coming at him with a purpose of malice, w