Word: archivist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schlesinger is now working closely with Wayne Grover, the archivist of the United States, and Edward Hanify of the Boston law firm of Ropes and Gray...
...Scabby Sheep. Sent to French schools in Hanoi by her rich lawyer father (now South Viet Nam's Ambassador to the U.S.), Madame Nhu still speaks only halting Vietnamese, converses mostly in French. She met her future husband while wandering through a library where he was chief archivist, married him in 1943. Three years later, she was captured by the Communist Viet Minh while her husband was away on a trip; she was held prisoner in a remote village until, with the help of a Catholic partisan, she escaped to be reunited with Nhu in Saigon...
...Mila 18 is the reader's own memory. The novel all but duplicates John Hersey's The Wall. Author Uris even retains Hersey's slow device of telling whole sections of the story in the form of journal entries from the diary of a garrulous, intellectual archivist. If the color tone of Hersey's book was documentary grey, the hue of Uris' novel is stage catchup, the kind of theatricality that demeans the suffering that the book is meant to dignify...