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...DRAGON: SOUTHEAST ASIA OBSERVED: 1954-1970 by Dennis Bloodworth. 414 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
Corruption of America. Bloodworth sees Southeast Asia as so complex, so varied and contradictory that he can hardly write a book about it. His chapters, like his subject, separate into archipelagos and a thousand tiny islands. The dust jacket shows the head of a dragon: violent, mysterious, serpentine, finally inexplicable except as a myth...
...word oxygen means what it means, and neither Humpty Dumpty nor Spiro Agnew can alter that. New things-or newly discovered things -need new names. When a new microorganism swims into the biologist's ken, he does not reach back into folklore and call it a "small dragon"; he quarries the lexicon of a very dead language and concocts, say, "staphylococcus," a word never known before on land or sea, and therefore relatively free of confusing associations. (It is true that staphylo means "bunch of grapes," but since hardly anyone knows this, there is minimal danger that people will...
SINCE PUSEY goes to uncharacteristic lengths of self-dramatization in recount his role as St. George in the early '50's production that featured McCarthy as dragon, it is important to analyze the content of his actions. For Pusey holds out his response as the prime vindication of his liberal system...
...workmen to descend inside for repairs and dismantling. Wandering around the piece, Tony recalled with paternal pride the day in 1962 when he completed the original 46-in. model. "As soon as I finished it, I realized the piece had a sense of movement, like a little dragon or a snake," he said. "Then I remembered John McNulty's short story Third Avenue Medicine, in which he describes how bartenders watch for a vein to protrude from a man's forehead. It's a warning. He's drunk too much, and the bartenders...