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Like those much bigger but somehow simpler conflicts, World War II and Korea, the Viet Nam War will doubtless bring back its own harsh pathology. It has already left scars that cannot readily be mended. "War does things to the language," as New York Times Columnist Russell Baker warned, "and the language in revenge refuses to cooperate in helping us to understand what we are talking about." The language has also taken its revenge at home, from the Vietspeak of "fragging" and "pacification" to the home-brewed jargon of "pigs" and "fascist conspiracies." The campuses have again begun to turn...
Plot. Few Presidents have escaped vilification while in office, but L.B.J. got more than his measure. He was denounced as vain, tyrannical, vindictive, sly, crude. The attack was so harsh and sweeping because Lyndon Johnson resembled a cast of characters more than a single person...
...fluency in the language and relaxation of travel restrictions would not alter the situation greatly. Tuchman finds herself listening with American ears, seeing through American eyes, and even smelling with an American nose. In concluding a description of harsh rural reality, she suddenly moves from the size of garden plots to a description of a "privy"--just one more victim of the American Bathroom Syndrome. She defines deficiencies in terms of American excesses. She even goes so far as to judge the inflections of Chinese music, a dangerous task when crossing cultural lines...
...author, B. Traven, the story is an adventure weaved so tightly it becomes allegory. But such a description hides the style of the film. Its portraiture, not just of characters but of Tampico and the bum's life, is as skillful as could be, and the mood ranges from harsh humiliation of Bogart by Alfonso Bedoya, the bandit chief, to dreamy paradise that Walter Huston finds...
...than Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Palme. In an emotional statement last December. Palme, 45, an intense, dedicated socialist, compared the aerial attacks on Hanoi and Haiphong to the past atrocities of "Guernica, Oradour, Babi Yar, Katyn, Lidice, Sharpeville, Treblinka." Washington, long annoyed by Sweden's harsh criticism of the U.S. role in the war, reacted sharply, telling Stockholm, in effect, not to bother sending a new ambassador to the U.S. capital for the time being. Will those ill feelings last into the peace? Palme for one does not think so, as he explained in an interview with...