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...many tragedies of World War I was that it ruined a generation of artists and poets on both sides of the trenches. For every minor cult figure like Rupert Brooke, polishing his gung-ho stanzas and dying of a mosquito bite en route to the Dardanelles, a dozen real poets like Isaac Rosenberg and Wilfred Owen were cut down. Georges Braque was shot and lived, but the war deprived the 20th century of the mature work of Franz Marc, August Macke, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Umberto Boccioni and Raymond Duchamp-Villon, as well as that of a young sculptor named...
...again, even having weekends off," Elliott claimed to welcome his own return to the grind. "It was a long haul," he said of his previous stint as editor, "but now the pressure has cooled, and I'm looking forward to going back in. I guess I'm gung-ho." A former TIME writer who joined Newsweek in 1955, he will not say how long he intends to occupy the editor's office this time. But whenever he gets tired of it, two other TIME alumni will be waiting in the wings: Managing Editor Lester Bernstein and Executive...
Captain Mike Cahalan, a gung-ho, short haired, hard working, non-dope smoking swimmer, was talking of an undefeated season. Before the season started distance freestyler and IM'er Howie Burns and top butterflyer Craig Sewell quit, and Cahalan already began to feel that the swimmers were sabotaging his dreams of an undefeated season...
...middle of the negotiations on Laos. Our hope then, especially after the apparent agreement Kennedy had with Khrushchev in Vienna, was that everyone would get out of Laos, a major step toward peace in Southeast Asia. So I was very reluctant at that period to see us go gung-ho in the area until we saw how that worked out." Moreover, Rusk said, the level of infiltration was "still very low," and the Berlin crisis made "a number of us reluctant to make additional commitments in South Viet Nam during that episode...
...much-traveled lecturing colonels; their speeches violated service regulations against public statements on the foreign policy aspects of Viet Nam. Other segments depicted a violent Green Beret karate demonstration and children reveling in it, and a group of VIPs-getting four-star treatment on a Defense Department tour-going gung-ho after test-firing high-priced weaponry. The network included criticism of itself. Walter Cronkite was the Government's narrator in one of the cold war films; a former Air Force information officer in Viet Nam described how CBS had been gulled into filming a misleadingly optimistic description...