Word: commander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with great integrity and great knowledge." These words were used by Jimmy Carter last month to describe Robert Griffin, who had been fired in July as second in command of the scandal-ridden General Services Administration and given a $50,000-a-year consolation prize as assistant to Anti-Inflation Czar Robert Strauss. Griffin, the President said, had not been tainted by the widespread corruption that investigators have unearthed at the GSA, which spends $5 billion a year to provide federal bureaucrats with office space, supplies and housekeeping services. The cause for Griffin's dismissal was said...
Burt Lancaster, who has been playing veteran soldiers since long before he became a veteran actor, is in command of the American detachment and in solid command of the best starring role he has had in years (he was, of course, superb as the dying patriarch, a character role in Bertolucci's sprawling 1900). Without the slightest fuss, he gives us a portrait of a dutybound professional whose soldierly instincts tell him that his duty this time is madness. Revolt is beyond his character, but disgust is not. Lancaster's presence, carrying with it the memory of other...
...problems here are an ill-equipped and ill-motivated local soldiery (they go into battle carrying shotguns), the corruption of the local district leader, a high command that doesn't understand the nature of guerrilla warfare, and a less-than-inspiring crowd of American helpers. Among them: A sergeant whose gung-ho spirit has been burned out in the war. A lieutenant who moronically parrots-because he moronically believes-all the official rationales for the war, all the official ideas of how to conduct yourself on this dark and bloody ground. A sometime college student one suspects of having...
...Boston offense, the Red Sox played cat-and-mouse, creeping toward and sometimes into the lead, but never really taking command of the contest...
...wore belts of silver thread, embroidered gloves, and, according to Petrarch's annoyed report, presumptuously donned golden spurs when they rode to their visits attended by a servant. Their wives were permitted greater expenditure on clothes than other women, perhaps in recognition of the large fees doctors could command. Not all were learned professors. Boccaccio's Doctor Simon was a proctologist who had a chamber pot painted over his door to indicate his specialty...