Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stretches the imagination almost as much as the plot construction. The lines range from pure exposition to the hokey (Father, speaking of the son: "He called me old man!") to the absurd ("I don't know where you're headed, but you're going to be pushed there damn fast."). Some of the worst writing centers around Paul's teenage affair, gratuitously stuck into the second half--complete with flashback...
...that is primarily what we get from the largely freshman cast. Typical is Glenn Schewtz as the gum-chewing father. He has a strange way with a line, and Sorensen might have tried to correct the problem. Schewtz starts off slow and loud, then becomes fast and loud like a locomotive. As a result, I often had trouble hearing the end of the elder Sligar's sentences...
Until the end, the rivals zigzagged across the country, concentrating on the largest states. They traveled so fast and talked so heatedly that they finally almost overshadowed the Wallace campaign, giving the race the aura of a tight, old-fashioned two-man contest. Yet the oddities that have marked the campaign's course continued to show up regularly. Humphrey, long tormented by his low marks among college students but helped by the leadership of organized labor, got a far better reception from kids at Malone College in Canton, Ohio, than among the steelworkers in western Pennsylvania. Though still...
...villagers were members of the Popular Self-Defense Forces, a civilian militia movement that is fast taking hold in the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Binh. Despite the search for peace, the fighting in Viet Nam continues, and as always, civilians are heavily involved. In the long history of the war, many things have been tried to make effective use of civilians - strategic hamlet enclaves, the regional and popular forces, which are a uniformed militia based in their home area and thus more familiar with local conditions than regular South Vietnamese or U.S. troops. But few past programs seem...
...learned team soccer at Harvard," Hardy says. "For example, at Glengyle they put the big guys on defense to block the other team's advances, and the offense consisted of fast players who got the ball from the defenders, dribbled all the way upfield by themselves, and tried to score...