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...puffing and prestidigitating- language theories, borrowings from Greek, Italian and Provençal, imagism, myth and verses from the Chinese. Of course some of the connections are weak, and Kenner is not above a bit of crankery on his own. He often wears his learning like a lead flak jacket and, like Pound, can be pithy to the point of incomprehensibility. But he has a contagious gusto and a splendid ear: the fragments of Pound's poetry that litter his pages are altogether dazzling and rich, "an anthology of rightnesses." Kenner knows some good sto ries...
...infiltration routes into Laos and down the Ho Chi Minh Trail into South Viet Nam and Cambodia. In one 27-hour period last week, four Phantoms ran into fatal trouble over Laos. One was downed by ground fire; two ran out of fuel while trying to evade missiles and flak along the North Vietnamese border; the fourth was destroyed by a missile-armed MIG-21-the first kill by a North Vietnamese jet since January 1970, when a MIG shot a U.S. helicopter down over Laos. Striking back, U.S. planes attacked five North Vietnamese missile and radar sites...
...more than a hastily-built bureaucratic contraption within which the warrior must eke out a petty and sadistic existence profiteering promotions, medals, and love-making. Wry but bitter, Sloan's hero constantly visits the base's dentist while worrying about continual gonorrhea, and enjoys pissing into the flak around his helicopter gunship. Amid the war's psychic viciousness the hero maintains his uneasy sanity by means of his crudely cynical opportunism and angry mischief...
Since CCAS made the proposal public last week, Fletcher officials "have been catching a lot of flak," Cameron said. "We've agreed in the future to keep the Fletcher community informed about negotiations with the government on collective research contracts...
...Radcliffe students got a lot of flak back from women now at Harvard about being treated as token females,"Genevieve Austin, Radcliffe dean of Residence, said yesterday, when asked why more women did not apply for Harvard Houses...