Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Just tells it, the Army is obsessed with the idea that it is not responsible for the Viet Nam fiasco and, like the French army before it, blames the whole mess on civilian leaders. A senior general in Viet Nam told Just: "I will be damned if I will permit the U.S. Army, its institutions, its doctrine and its traditions to be destroyed just to win this lousy war." But it is precisely the current effectiveness of the Army's institutions, doctrine and traditions that Just calls into question...
Later that year (the academic year of the Bay of Pigs fiasco) I began to inquire about the nature of a conscientious objector status. Here began my second break with the posture of representative manhood. Ironically, after being granted a tentative conscientious-objector release from the Marine Officer Program. I decided to rejoin it. This return, however, did not represent a swing of a pendulum from a rebellious position back to a formerly rejected one. Rather, it was the end-product of my study of various radical and dissenting movements in American history, and a rejection on my part...
...drift, and includes such boggling episodes as Scrooge's descent into Hell (which looks to have been inspired by the astronauts' descent toward Jupiter in 2001). The script, music and lyrics are by Leslie Bricusse, whose previous contributions include Dr. Dolittle and Goodbye, Mr. Chips. After this fiasco, Bricusse should become as forgettable as the music he writes. The chorus of one of his tunes from Scrooge runs something like "Thank you very much, thank you very much. Thank you very, very, very much." To which the obvious and inevitable reply should be, "Thanks, but no thanks...
...conservative kingdoms (see map). To fuse them into a single unit would be all but impossible. The closest approach, the 1958 amalgamation of Egypt and Syria into the United Arab Republic, lasted only three years before the Syrians seceded, complaining of Egyptian domination. Nasser's aim after that fiasco was to form a consortium of governments that would remain politically separate but would work together militarily and economically. At the time of his death, he was trying to develop such a complex with the new revolutionary regimes of Libya and the Sudan...
...Fiasco in Three Acts...