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Throughout U.S. Journal, a collection of Trillin's New Yorker pieces, the author reportedly lands like a benign ordering presence-deus ex-machine gunner-amidst chaos, humbug and hoopla. Covering a great deal of ground, he is naturally sympathetic toward other traveling men. He writes about a Dow Chemical recruiter who in 1968 had to go from campus to campus, removing his shoes to step over antiwar demonstrators, and try to answer such polite undergraduate questions as, "I was wondering if a Dow employee could be prosecuted as a war criminal ten or 15 years from now?" Elsewhere, Trillin...
North of Highway 9 hundreds of South Vietnamese paratroopers and rangers were moving by foot towards the border. One group of paratroopers was being led by an American helicopter gunner shot down Friday who refused rescue attempts...
...could produce highly wrought political caricature-Government, 1901, is a superb image of the state as machine, a cross between palace and steam roller, drawn years before the invention of the tank but moving blindly across a dead landscape manned by a gunner and some top-hatted diplomats, popes and kings. But his most memorable images were elegies of dispossession: of that dark tract between social role and inner imagination whose verbal maps were drawn by Kubin's Middle European contemporary, Franz Kafka. The Guilt, 1902, is quintessential Kubin: a starveling figure immersed to his knees in water, bent...
...will take Murphy a bit longer to come up to his own standards. Like Rookie Pete Maravich of the Atlanta Hawks, he is still making the difficult adjustment from the high-scoring college "gunner" to the all-round player demanded by the pros. Primarily, he is working on defense and on passing off to the open man in offensive patterns -skills that were of secondary importance when he played for Niagara University and averaged 33.1 points per game, the third highest career mark in N.C.A.A. history. Murphy has no trouble hitting the hoop; though used sparingly in the early part...
...Boks met at the Sorbonne, and were married in 1955 by Pierre Mendes-France, former French prime minister. Mrs. Bok is the daughter of Gunner and Alva Myrdal, both well-known Swedish social scientists...