Word: camped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...combat film showing a Green Beret trooper slinging grenades into a peasant's hut in Viet Nam. For pop-art fans, there was a cartoon drawing of Donald Duck, Superman and Foxy Fox representing three American oil companies fighting for petroleum rights in an underdeveloped country. Lovers of camp art could watch a carefully edited Tarzan film that illustrated Johnny Weissmuller's "white supremacy" over African tribesmen. And for the surrealist school, there was a likeness of a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion that slowly turned into a growling Lyndon Johnson...
...Crater with a View. The V.C. first opened up with mortars on the U.S. base, then sent snipers scurrying under cover of the moonless night into the camp's very midst to sow confusion. Then, from north and south, the Communists charged in force. The big U.S. 155-mm. guns were lowered to fire pointblank, and cooks and headquarters clerks joined the gun crews in manning the defense. U.S. planes, directed by Sergeant Mark Ridley of San Antonio, soon swept in to blast the attackers. When the attack began, Ridley and his squad found themselves out on patrol...
December and January are the publishing equivalent of baseball's spring training. The camp is not in Florida or Arizona but in hotels around New York City, where sales conferences are held, where new talents and old reputations are momentarily warmed in the rays of editors' adjectives. As in baseball, it may turn out to be a long, long season, but if only half the new year's big names and projects fulfill their promises, the reader may not have time to follow either baseball or politics...
...genre was launched a couple of decades ago by Upton Sinclair in his Lanny Budd novels and was developed with sharper expertise by Allen Drury with Advise and Consent and Fletcher Knebel with Night of Camp David and Seven Days in May. The success of such books depends on a measure of atmospheric authenticity to give readers the illusion that they are really being taken into White House bathrooms and Pentagon war rooms, and on suspense. Knebel, a former Washington reporter, is adept at providing both qualities, and therein lies the book's virtue...
...heads of the SS and the Gestapo. He even met the great art expert Bernard Berenson, a Jew and a U.S. citizen, at the villa where friends hid the old man for 13 months. For keeping that one secret alone, Wolf could have wound up in a concentration camp. But he went much further. He collaborated with the Florentines in hiding paintings and sculpture, and worked desperately through the church and the German ambassador to keep the city from becoming a military objective, although the battle eventually did reach the city, and much Florentine art and architecture was needlessly destroyed...