Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GRANT TAKES COMMAND, by Bruce Catton. Completing the trilogy begun by the late historian Lloyd Lewis, Catton employs lucidity and laconic humor as he follows the taciturn general to his final victory at Appomattox...
...star until 1943). Five days after Pearl Harbor, Marshall ordered him to Washington to assess the situation in the Philippines. Next, Marshall asked for a paper on the organization of U.S. forces in Europe. On June 8, 1942, Ike submitted a document entitled "Directive for the Commanding General, European Theater of Operations." On June 11, as commanding general for Europe, he went to work on his own recommendations. Marshall had persuaded President Roosevelt to reach deep down the seniority list for a man to lead the largest army that any nation in history had ever fielded. "Looks like...
Focusing his mind power on the looking glass, Sirhan soon convinced himself that he could order an inanimate object to move. He rigged a pendulum from a fisherman's weight, and on command, he said, it began to sway. Yet telekinesis-the ability to cause objects at a distance to move through the exercise of will-was a frightening power, and Sirhan feared that he might lose his mind. Once, instead of his own image in the mirror, Sirhan saw a vision of Robert Kennedy, the man he was soon afterward to kill...
Still, Ojukwu, who last week took personal command of Biafran forces attempting to blunt the Nigerian attack, realizes that if the stalemate materializes, only outside intervention of some sort will end the war now. In an interview at Umuahia, he suggested that the feasible way to bring Nigeria to the bargaining table was "a diplomatic victory whereby Nigeria would be faced with the spectre of isolation." Was Wilson the man to bring off such a diplomatic victory? Replied Ojukwu: "I do sincerely hope that this trip is no gimmick and that he is genuinely out for peace. It is true...
Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood appear as the kind of super soldiers who could have won World War II during a weekend pass. Major Burton is head of a British mission behind enemy lines; Lieut. Eastwood is his Yank second-in-command. Their assignment is to rescue an American general who has got himself imprisoned in a German army fortress high in the Alps. There are two inevitable complications: 1) a dirty turncoat is methodically bumping off the members of the mission, and 2) one of those guys in uniform turns out to be a girl (Mary...