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Niven appears to be a totally social animal. In company he is the most amiable of men-quick with his tongue, handy with a glass, a devil with the ladies. During World War II he was also a brave soldier, but you'll never hear about that from Niven. All he reports of his experiences as a commando major during the Normandy landing is that he could hardly hear the guns for the nightingales...
Incredibly Brave. To a sometimes absurd degree, the Vietnamization of the war has meant the Americanization of the Vietnamese, who have developed a taste for the U.S. Army manner as well as for U.S. materiel. From battalion level on up, every ARVN headquarters has a full battery of plastic-covered briefing charts ready to be whipped out for visiting VIPs...
...desertion rate. That situation could be changed quickly by a few sharp setbacks in combat, or if the suspicion spreads that the U.S. is about to sell the regime out. But for the moment, says Colonel Ross Franklin, an experienced U.S. adviser, "these guys are just incredibly stoic and brave. They go out and fight in water up to their waists for weeks at a time. And they're professional, too, if they have good leaders. If they don't, they can just fall apart...
...fudged or romanticized; all the attention is focused on an absolute truth of contour, the precise sensation of bunched, knotted or slack muscle, the laconic interplay between the cold skin and the darting, vivid pat terns of the fabric. No artist of Pearlstein's generation has so brave ly confronted the basic issues of realism-how to hold the utmost concreteness of three-dimensional volume within the strongest two-dimensional pattern. The vigorously modeled limbs and trunks of his subjects create a pictorial energy that, like the black scaffolding of Kline's brush marks, burst through the edges...
Last season, Manhattan's Negro Ensemble Company wallowed in polemics. Now the company has made a brave new start with the most impressive drama it has yet staged. The Sty of the Blind Pig by Philip Hayes Dean is steeped in the humor, the passion, and the frustration of black life. It is eloquent, powerful, moving and beautiful...