Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! is an honest and lyrical, sentimental and humorous account of a young Irishman's preparations to leave his homeland for America. A uniformly excellent cast is headed by Dubliners Donal Donnelly and Patrick Bedford, who play the hero's inner and outer selves...
...VISION OF BATTLEMENTS, by Anthony Burgess. This wry account of a young Briton's jousts with the military bullies and oafs stationed on Gibraltar during and after World War II shines like a Faberge bauble when compared with the usual assortment of wartime reminiscences...
...England last month for a lecture engagement, Western observers were frankly surprised. Tarsis had spent six months in a Moscow insane asylum for his outspoken attacks on Soviet officialdom in his first published underground novel, The Bluebottle, badgered the authorities still further last year with a scathing account of life on the funny farm, called Ward 7. All the same, counseled Komsomolskaya Pravda, "Let him go. We know why they [the West] need him. It is to pump all the anti-Soviet fascist vomit out of this mental case and then dump him onto the garbage heap...
...Soup. Keitel's stiff, drill-field prose comes alive only during his account of the War's last month. As the Russians swarmed across the Oder to ward Berlin and Hitler took sullenly to his bunker, Keitel and his faithful driver took off on a quixotic swing to rally the shattered Wehrmacht forces around the capital. He relished the experience: hasty lunches of pea soup in a forest command post, ducking into ditches to avoid strafing Allied fighters, brave speeches to the scared kids and old men in ill-fitting Volkssturm helmets who had been left to defend...
...armed forces," he wrote in his Nürnberg cell, "would have labeled me a deserter and a coward. Hitler himself chose death rather than accept responsibility. For him to have committed suicide when he knew he was defeated . . . for him to have left it to a subordinate to account for his auto cratic and arbitrary actions, these two shortcomings will remain forever incomprehensible to me. They are my final disillusion...