Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Good as Koreans? South Viet Nam's units vary tremendously in esprit and fighting ability. Some 115,000 soldiers deserted last year-almost one in five. This year a tough new law has cut the rate in half, but the problem of morale persists. Some harsh critics would write off up to three-quarters' of the overall South Vietnamese forces as effective military units. And the critics are by no means all West Pointers. "I wonder if we will ever be as good as the Koreans," Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Cao Van Vien recently said...
...Girl Like Diahann. Moynihan does that with a vehemence and a candor that earn him enemies. Like the 19th century Irish immigrants, he says, "the harsh fact is that as a group, at the present time," America's Negroes "are not equal to most of those groups with which they will be competing." Eventually, the Irish closed that gap, and Moynihan has no doubt that the Negroes will too. But they need help...
...PIANO CONCER TOS NOS. 1 AND 3 (RCA Victor). It requires tremendous energy to beat out Bartok's spooky rhythms on a piano, and 19-year-old Peter Serkin spares not an ounce of vigorous intensity. But not all of the album's music is composed of harsh explosions of frenetic percussion; the "night music" in the Third Concerto was inspired by the bird and insect sounds of Asheville, N.C., where Bartok sketched out the music during a visit in 1944. Conductor Seiji Ozawa, 31, matches Serkin's youthful sympathy with Bartok's still-new ideas...
...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Anderson Platoon." A harsh but compassionate study of young Americans at war produced by Pierre Schoendoerffer for French TV (TIME, Feb. 17). This is a closeup of Captain Joseph B. Anderson, 24, a West Pointer and a Negro, as he leads his soldiers through the Viet Nam war in the fall...
Open Shrines. All the inane charges could not mask the embarrassing truth that after a six-day war, Israel does indeed hold territory that the Arabs would dearly like to get back. In a rational world, Israel's terms would not seem overly harsh. What it asks in exchange for the land it has conquered is not a return to its dangerous existence before the war but a guarantee that it can live in peace. "Our watchword is not backward to belligerency, but forward to peace," explained its ever-eloquent Foreign Minister Abba Eban. Israel's prime demand...