Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would like to add a strong second to Military Historian S. L. A. Marshall's view of "The Basic Flaw in Viet Nam" [Oct. 21]. I spent a year there as an intelligence officer with the 1st Air Cavalry Division. In the three months that I have been back in the U.S., I have been struck by the incredible lack of any substantive news on military operations in Viet Nam. While the infrequent and unavoidable accidents of war claim headlines, major Allied operations are usually dismissed in two or three sentences, or are wedged somewhere between Ann Landers...
...neglect of Paul Revere II, says Marshall, reflects a basic flaw in the reporting out of Viet Nam. The "over whelming majority" of reporters, he claims, exhibits a "cynical faddishness" that has not characterized the reporting of any previous U.S. war. "Today's average correspondent prefers a piece that will make people squirm and agonize. The war is being covered primarily for all bleeding hearts and for Senator Fulbright, who casts about for a way to stop it by frightening and shocking the citizenry. It is not being reported for simple souls who would like to know...
Thus far, this untidy thriller proceeds without a serious flaw. Working slowly into the nightmare realism of David Ely's novel, Director John Frankenheimer and Veteran Photographer James Wong Howe manage to give the most improbable doings a look of credible horror. Once Rock appears, though, the spell is shattered, and through no fault of his own. Instead of honestly exploring the ordeal of assuming a second identity, the script subsides for nearly an hour into conventional Hollywood fantasy...
...merchandise they had heard of they often bought it with a grand flourish, thus recommending its advantages and their expertise to friends. Most of them were feeling the gorge of possessive passion that comes when one is first deeply convinced that he is going to Harvard; the only flaw is that the beer mugs and stationery purchased in this fit don't evaporate with...
Faustian Galaxy. To eliminate this apparent flaw in an otherwise symmetrical universe, Stannard suggests that there is another universe "embed ded in the same space-time framework" as man's-only its time runs backward. Such a "Faustian"* universe, he says, would be unobservable by earthmen because Faustian matter would not in teract with normal matter; it would separate out into planets, solar systems and galaxies...