... but by that time a lot of sea had rolled by and Lucette was too tired to wait. Then the night was filled with the rattle of an... old but still strong helicopter. Its diligent beam could spot only the dark head of Van, who, having been propelled out of the boat when it shied from its own sudden shadow, kept bobbing and bawling the drowned girl's name in the black, foam-veined, complicated waters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Stevenson had noble ideas--as did the young Franklin for that matter. But Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to pre...sent himself as a thoughtful idealist and wait for the world to flock to him. He considered it below him, or wrong, to scramble out among the people and ask them what they wanted. Roosevelt grappled voters to him. Stevenson shied off from them. Some thought him too pure to desire power, though he showed ambition when it mattered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »