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...freshman member of the Joint Chiefs, he had stepped into his job four months ago when he became Chief of Naval Operations, in an atmosphere acrid with controversy and resentment. He had brought to the nation's highest military council something that had been too much forgotten in the jealous and unseemly interservice fights over unification-a grasp of international strategy, military history and geopolitics. He had, in fact, some of the broad-gauge character of men like Clay, Eisenhower, MacArthur-a type of mind which, on the record, West Point seemed to produce more often than Annapolis...
...position to speak freely knows, and until such questions are answered, all a biographer can do is to rework the public record. Biographer Deutscher, an ex-Communist who now writes for British weeklies, has done this with taste and scholarship. Though less exciting and brilliant than Trotsky's acrid biography of Stalin, Deutscher's book is more reliable and objective...
They got used to new smells-including the acrid insecticides that were sprayed through the plane before tropical stops. On the 8½-hour hop across the South Atlantic to Dakar, plane riders learned how uneventful a trip could be: in hours of staring out the window, a pair of rocks in mid-Atlantic called Peter & Paul was all there was to see below. They talked, drank cocktails, ate from trays, played gin rummy, and waited for the ocean to end at Dakar. Some flew the new air trade route south to "Jo'burg" (Johannesburg). Others went north...
Waugh has a great talent for vivisection; the results may be acrid-smelling. If he were middle-of-the-road, gentle and soft in his surgery, the pungency would be lost. Let the morticians demonstrate "compassion"; it's up to the readers of The Loved One just to chuckle...
Stravinsky: Concertino and Three Pieces for String Quartet (Gordon String Quartet; Concert Hall Society, 4 sides). Stravinsky has written little for string quartets. This alburn includes all of it. Acrid and tart, but powerful, this will make Stravinsky fans wish he had written more. Performance: good...