Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week at Bogor, a grim-faced Sukarno recalled a dolorous notion from Historian Arnold Toynbee. Said Sukarno: "A great civilization never goes down unless it destroys itself from within." Since Sukarno considers him self the embodiment of Indonesia, it was a gloomy quote indeed. Relentlessly, the Indonesian army is tightening its noose around the throat of the Partai Kommunis Indonesia, and with every turn Bung Karno's beloved Nasakom-the blend of nationalism, religion...
Girlish glee goes with grim ideology in Bettina. "Everyone said we were finks for supporting Johnson in 1964," she says, but Communists had to back L.BJ. because "Goldwater was a neofascist." Now she says that "President Johnson and Secretary of Defense McNamara and the whole damned Administration are hypocrites and liars and have betrayed the American people...
...such questions were answered satisfyingly in William Mulvihill's novel. Here they are spelled out according to the conventions of steam-heated movie melodrama, but the film still turns the guesswork into good grim fun. Competition within the group begins in earnest after they find refuge in a hillside cave. While a herd of baboons observes the vagaries of humankind, the six rapidly dwindle. The hardy pilot (Nigel Davenport) sets off to seek help. An old German (Harry Andrews) and a professorial type (Theodore Bikel) are eliminated one way or another by the fittest male, Stuart Whitman...
...without flak, and when you get there, they are all stirred up and mad as hornets." "As a matter of fact," he adds, "on our base we call the guy who wakes us up before a JCS strike 'the Grim Reaper'-and it isn't funny either." Hardly. On one attack east of Hanoi last week, four Navy planes were shot down in 35 minutes by a particularly accurate cluster of guns tucked into a river bend...
With darkness came the grim task of getting the U.S. dead and wounded out of a sky-clotting jungle roof 250 feet high, impossible for helicopters to penetrate. The Airborne called for a chain saw and some C-4 high explosive to cut and blast a landing zone the next day. Meanwhile the most seriously wounded were hoisted through the trees in wire baskets by rescue choppers hovering overhead. At first light next morning, seven more chain saws attacked the jungle, and at 10 a.m. the clearing was big enough for one MEDEVAC chopper at a time to flutter down...