Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pumpkin are you ready? You are my first step into a new life. Perhaps I'll reach the cross alive, not dead. You will take me out of my dreams so that I might live them. But I must tell you something first, I have lied to someone about you. I mentioned farming. Silly, I know, but I through the guy had some similar drop out in mind and I brought it up to make him feel good. But I started feeling lousy. I was a bum, Pumpkin. And I had to tell you before it is accomplished...
...plot is circular: the world is unchanged, a character is dead--but our understanding of the milieu (characters and setting) has been amazing enlarged. The end of Toni repeats the first shot and it is frightening. Filled with an incredibly strong feeling of the world of film--a feeling almost of aesthetic passion--we are unable to act. This closed world, Renoir's creation, is fixed...
...attacks in South Viet Nam left 453 Americans dead in the first week, a higher toll than for any one week since last May-higher even than in the first full week of the Tet offensive a year ago. U.S. dead in Viet Nam now number 32,376, and the total is fast approaching the Korean War figure of 33,629. With round after round of Soviet-made 122-mm. rockets crashing into cities and killing Vietnamese civilians, the Communists appeared to be violating the tacit understanding that Lyndon Johnson thought he had with Hanoi when he ordered the bombing...
...must have been a fairly orderly Chinese withdrawal, however: the Russians admit that they have no idea of the attacker's casualties because the Chinese took their dead and wounded with them when they fell back. Before they withdrew, they held the ground long enough to inflict some "bloodcurdling brutalities," says Moscow. "The Chinese fired point-blank at the wounded and bayoneted them. The faces of some of the slain Soviet soldiers were so mutilated that they were unrecognizable...
...Ideas." The question for discussion was "The End of the Rationalist Tradition?"-and the answer seemed obvious. Pronounced Poet Robert Lowell: "The world is absolutely out of control now, and it's not going to be saved by reason or unreason." Said Author Leslie Fiedler: "Reason, although dead, holds us with an embrace that looks like a lovers' embrace but turns out to be rigor mortis. Unless we're necrophiles, we'd better let go." Intoned Norman Mailer: "Somewhere, something incredible happened in history-the wrong guys won. We're heading for a conclusion that...