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Died. Major George Fielding Eliot, 76, military analyst; in Torrington, Conn. Eliot, who served as a reserve Army intelligence officer between 1922 and 1930, turned from writing war stories for pulp magazines to serious military commentary in 1928, subsequently publishing 15 books on military and international affairs. During World War II he wrote a widely syndicated New York Herald Tribune column and appeared regularly on CBS radio. A staunch advocate of seapower, he argued that the U.S. could build impregnable defenses without compromising democratic tradition...
...skillful acting and a melancholy sense of life's fatalities. O'Neill in this work strictly observed the Greek unities of time, place and action, and came closest to his lifelong aim of writing a neo-Greek tragedy. The story begins at breakfast time in New London, Conn., in 1912 and ends around midnight of the same day. The "four haunted Tyrones," as O'Neill renamed his family, establish a tension of rage and apology, followed by purgation in four self-revelatory monologues...
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Today, Kosinski lives in Manhattan but commutes to New Haven, Conn., where, at the Yale School of Drama, he teaches two courses on nonconventional English prose and another called "Death and the Modern Imagination." Generally, he does not have much regard for American students. He once described many of them as dead souls: "At best, they sit and watch films or listen to music in a group, thus isolated by a collective medium which permits each of them to escape direct contact with the others...