Word: dieingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vividly that the concept behind it is assimilated long before it is explicitly stated. The symbol is a sort of paper-bag human frame crumpling at various points in the story, and the concept is that of an alternative not take, one of our potential selves that begins to die once we have made the relevant decision against it. Nice; but not the science fiction I once knew...
...result, rather, of continued Communist offensives. Though admitting that figures on U.S. military operations in Viet Nam have always been of an "illusionary nature," he nonetheless cited some. In a typical week, when 35 to 40 enemy attacks are launched, some 150 to 200 Americans are likely to die. When, as in a recent week, the Communists make 211 attacks, the grim toll of 453 U.S. dead is the result. But, asked a newsman, was Hamburger Hill an example of a U.S. attack or a Communist assault? The North Vietnamese had been sitting more or less quietly...
...Karajan? Where is there a house where each stagehand and stage technician has undergone an apprenticeship under masters whose teachers themselves form an uninterrupted chain through four generations? And where else is there a house where ushers greet each lady or gentleman by saying 'Küss" die Hand [I kiss your hand]' with a deference that dates straight back to the Imperial days...
...Andromeda Strain, this almost happens. An American probing satellite is picked up on its return by the unwary inhabitants of a small Arizona town. Curious, they open it, inspect it and proceed to die, variously and mysteriously-except for a new baby and an old lush. A four-man scientific team, spearhead of a vast prepackaged program called Operation Wildfire, is immediately dispatched to a sealed-off underground laboratory in the Nevada desert, where both survivors and the capsule are brought. There the specialists attempt to track down the unknown microcosm, identify it as a source of contamination, and produce...
Without a false drop of sentimentality, the author lets Father Conroy die as he lived: an absurd misfit. Power can afford the risk, and not just because he is so brilliantly in control of his story. In his Irish bones, he knows something that many writing contemporaries do not understand: that failure is, in fact, the natural state of man. Converting chronic self-pity into the beginnings of self-awareness, Power proves himself, if not quite a tragedian, at least a master alchemist at producing final honor from final defeat...