Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ARVN, such victories are quite a change. It was not so many months ago that General William Westmoreland felt obliged to pass the word down the U.S. chain of command: if you can't say something good about the ARVN, don't say anything at all. The resulting silence was almost as damaging to the ARVN as the heavy shellfire of criticism it replaced. Of late, however, the ARVN has been doing some pretty effective firing of its own on the battlefields. Its performance has enabled U.S. officers to talk about the ARVN again, this time in terms...
Some 20,000 "phantom soldiers" are still in the ranks-soldiers who have defected to civilian life but still remain on the active rolls in exchange for letting their officers pocket their pay. Graft runs right up the command line in many units. The going price for a province chief's chair can be $25,000, an investment quickly earned back via shakedowns of the local population and kickbacks on licenses and shipments of goods...
...command of movement, in variety of expression, Taylor's company of eleven dancers has moved steadily into the top rank of America's smaller dance groups. Like most of them, its appeal is special, its audiences are small and its financial problems great. But, in the unmistakable flowering of interest in ballet that is currently sweeping across the U.S., Taylor's choreographic synthesis may very well help bring modern dance, no less than ballet, into the affections of American audiences...
...command of movement, in variety of expression, Taylor's company of eleven dancers has moved steadily into the top rank of America's smaller dance groups. Like most of them, its appeal is special, its audiences are small and its financial problems great. But, in the unmistakable flowering of interest in ballet that is currently sweeping across the U.S., Taylor's choreographic synthesis may very well help bring modern dance, no less than ballet, into the affections of American audiences...
...more noticeable, then, has been its deterioration over the past few months. Formerly run by civilian professional broadcasters loosely controlled by the Army, AFN has gradually been taken over directly by the military. Its success rests largely with the officer in command, who must have good judgment enough to strike a balance between too much freedom of speech and too little. "There is no censorship per se," says onetime AFN managing editor Maury Cagle, now with ABC radio news. "The policy of AFN is determined by how scared the information officer is." The present one, Navy Captain Walter Ellis...