Word: cowards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...precarious balance of order in his life, and survived his final training. He wondered if his proud endurance of those physical trials was only fear in disguise, if he was desperately ignoring his failure to say a final dramatic no to the war. O'Brien decided he was a coward and boarded a plane for Cam Ranh...
...coward" won seven medals in Vietnam, and, more importantly, survived. O'Brien trudged through swamps, and watched friends and enemies die, witnessed war crimes and simple insults to humanity. His college dialogues on the war were left far behind. " ...No one in Alpha Company knows or cares about the cause or purpose of their war," he wrote. "It is about 'dinks and slopes' and the idea is simply to kill them or avoid them." O'Brien did more avoiding than killing, eventually wangled a job in the rear, and endured Vietnam...
Slothful. There is also more in the endless procession of campaign histories, represented this season by a capable but rather specialized volume, Nazi Victory: Crete 1941. And of course, one genuine clunker, priced at $6.95, from Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. Called Hitler's Last Days, it is the brief but mesmerizingly dull memoir of a minor staff officer named Gerhard Boldt, who, as it turns out, constructs Hitler's very last days from already published sources-since he was not there...
...ignores the implications suggested by the community's opinion that Francis came home from the war, not because he was ill, but because he was a coward. His hero wanders silently and rather idiotically from his turreted home to a dye-works in the depths of the slums, and leads the Oppressed Workers out into the sunshine, "because we all should be free like the birds." He throws his father's entire stock of materials out the window into the streets, explaining to his infuriated parent that "all our treaures are in heaven," oblivious to the fact that the impoverished...
...family lived on terms of "feudal familiarity" with their servants. "Come on, one of you's got to go," said the footman, trying to persuade Edith or her reluctant brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell, to go upstairs to visit their mother. After lunching at the Ritz with Noel Coward, Waugh commented: "He has a simple, friendly nature. No brains and a theatrical manner...