Word: bunkerism
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...changing. One American city that seems to manage technological and economic change without sacrificing its essential character is Boston. Its residents have kept their new downtown, with its forthright and boldly sculptural city hall, the Faneuil Hall festival market and converted granite warehouses along the waterfront, as Bostonian as Bunker Hill. Now they are managing to control drastic changes in the famed Back Bay neighborhood. The latest and most dramatic case in point is Copley Place, a $500 million shopping, office and hotel complex that opens this week. The development might have been another alien invader of the city, like...
...been working on his play "Seaview" for the past couple of years. This three-act work includes a trio of separate stories about personal relationships that occur at a seashore. The first act takes place at a cottage house in 1925 in Marshfield, the second at a bunker overlooking the invasion of Normandy in 1944, and the third at North Carolina's Nag's Head Beach in 1979. "The play follows the dramatic evolution of the same character of the same character type." Farrell explains, adding that the same actor will play the protagonist in each...
...defense with their 5-in. guns. Throughout the evening, one of the hottest spots was Checkpoint 7, two rooftop observation posts outside the Marines' eastern flank, which were manned by a total of 19 Marines. So intense was the fire that five members of one squad left their bunkers voluntarily, scampered up two flights of stairs and a metal ladder, to join their firepower to that of five comrades who were already in the rooftop fighting position. That act of gallantry cost them dearly. Three rocket-propelled grenades burst on the sandbags around the position without causing significant damage...
...next day the Marine commander, Brigadier General Jim Joy, described the engagement: "We fought a pretty good scrap for three hours. We acquitted ourselves well. I was extremely proud of this organization." Then he explained how it had happened that ten Marines were clustered in a rooftop bunker that "probably should not have had more than four...
...chummy discussion by two enlisted men sitting outside their bunker was, perhaps surprisingly, dominated by the ambiguous considerations of diplomacy. "If we fire back at snipers," said Corporal John Anderson, 21, "we'll only cause more problems. They'll blame us." Corporal Jimmy Cornell, 20, nodded. "He's right. It's really catch-22. We were sitting here last night on the sandbags when this guy fired at us. The dirt flew up in our faces, but what can we do?" Anderson was worried too that fire lobbed into the mountains "will wind up hitting innocent...