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...concerns that haunts U.S. servicemen fighting that war in far-off Viet Nam is the nagging thought that people back home do not appreciate what they are doing and how much it can mean to the free world. Bridging the distance, in both miles and mind, between the warriors and the people they are fighting for is one of the responsibilities of good journalism. In the three years since the struggle in Viet Nam reached the proportions of war, TIME, in addition to its regular coverage, has had three cover stories on military commanders in the area: General Paul Harkins...
HAKLUYT'S VOYAGES, edited by Irwin Blacker. Highlights of the compendium of diaries, letters and essays that served as a contemporary Baedeker to far-off worlds and survives as the most authentic record of Elizabethan England's rise from seagirt obscurity to world power...
...Warrior's flamboyant pose, exaggerated sword, and improbably wrinkled clothes express the rococo flight from reality. The far-off glint in his eyes suggests the coming romantic cult of genius, the idea that reverie is greater than reason. Fragonard even more daringly juxtaposes colors, such as the reds on the yellow cheek, without transitions of tone-a foretaste of impressionism. Yet the painting's casualness-revered in its day as sublime and picturesque-is a pure rococo attitude...
...Among other curiosa, the camp boasts a sullen horse that looks like Robert Ryan, and children who have "the faces of middle-aged manufacturers." He makes sad love to a girl camper who when her breasts are caressed emits a horrendous squawk like a "sudden plumbing defect in a far-off house at midnight." When his last college application is turned down, Joseph consoles himself by rifling the lockers of the other waiters and, being Joseph, gets caught...
...tiny cave carved in far-off seas Whose dazzle of sun-struck gold-green Here incredibly fixed; and the sound...