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...GLORIA EMERSON 406 pages. Random House...
...Gloria Emerson grabs hold like the Ancient Mariner. With an obsessed eye, she recalls the war that Americans lost, now receding in the collective memory -old glossaries of "hooches," "lurps." "fraggings" and "Numbah Ten." or, at home, the Armies of the Night, sheep's blood spilled on draft records, Veterans Against the War hurling their medals at the Capitol...
...Emerson, 45, first visited Viet Nam in 1956, in the days of Graham Greene's Quiet American. She returned to cover the war for the New York Times from 1970 to 1972. Sometimes in this long documentary meditation on the war she becomes morally proprietary about Viet Nam, brittle with self-righteousness. Yet that indignation gives her book-despite its oddly banal title-a fine fury and intelligence. When someone suggests that too much has already been done on Viet Nam, Emerson replies: "Let the books be written, so when all of us are dead a long record will...
Survivor Numbness. The franchise she has undertaken is rather grandiose-to describe what the nation's longest war did to the American people, and also, in part, what it did to the Vietnamese. For several years Emerson ranged widely, talking to everyone she could find who had been touched by the war: veterans, fathers, mothers, wives, widows, deserters, P.O.W.s. resisters, Vietnamese. She had long since concluded, however, that most Americans were -and still are-weirdly oblivious to what happened in Viet Nam. Even the Kentucky mother of a boy who came home emotionally bent by the war remarks: "They...
Harvard repaired Robinson and Emerson Halls three years ago, but at the time the Faculty could not afford to fix Sever. Only the upper story underwent minor repairs to provide the Visual and Environmental Studies Department with a few course rooms...