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...FASCINATING as all this may be, Crazy Sundays is not without its drawbacks. Some of the writing is contrived, bland or pedantic. Latham has a tendency to point too energetically at the irony of each incident; he also has a predilection for Time-ese ("Zelda was teaching Scott lessons about tragedy which Aristotle had left out.") For someone unfamiliar with Fitzgerald's novels, the analysis here may be too sketchy; in any case, it is occasionally banal (The rape of Nicole by her father in Tender is seen as a symbol of capitalism...
...Replacement. Russian-built MIGs have accounted for another 20 planes, a poor showing against the 72 MIGs that U.S. pilots have downed in dogfights and another dozen or so destroyed on the ground. In the last month alone, the U.S. has destroyed an estimated 25% of the North Vietnam ese air force, bringing its total number of planes down to some 85 or 100. Since Hanoi never had more than 125 planes to begin with, and well over half that number have been lost in the war, Russia obviously is providing new planes to make up for at least part...
...Miss Ohio in the 1960 Miss U.S.A. contest. When he tires of his one-bedroom villa, Powell rests up by fishing for barracuda and wahoo from his 31-ft. yacht, Adam's Fancy, playing dominoes with the natives, sipping Cutty Sark-and-milk, and philosophizing in typical Powell-ese. "Let's be sweet and walk together," he said last week. "Keep the faith." As to why he has not made some move to purge the contempt charges against him, Powell says: "My head isn't bloody, much less bowed...
Cadets in Naval Sci. 52, the course for prospective Marine officers, answer questions like, "Describe brief the manner in which the Viet Cong approaches the problem of winning the support ...of the South Vietnam ese villager," or "What does (Vo Nguyen) Giap consider the really decisive factor for victory in any revolutionary...
Topping the list of shopworn journa-ese was the verb "hail," a pet of head-ine writers (MAYOR HAILS HOMETOWN HERO) as well as reporters ("New Yorkers hailed their first rain in six weeks"). Univac awarded second place to the phrase "violence flared," third place to "flatly denied." The rest of the runners-up: "racially troubled," "voters marched to the polls," "jampacked," "usually reliable sources," "backlash," "kickoff" (as applied to anything but a football game), "limped into port," "gutted by fire,-" "death and destruction," "riot-torn," "strife-torn," "tinder-dry woodlands," "in the wake of," "no immediate comment," "guarded optimism...