Word: honoured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upon than "thame that maryis twa sindrie wyfis or husbandis levand togiddir undervorsit [undivorced]." Under the act, punishment of such culprits is fixed at "confiscatioun of all theair gudis mouabill of their persounis for yeir and day." Also, they may "neuer habill to bruke [never again bear] office of honour, dignitie nor benefice...
Angrily he notes his escape (to an English school at age ten) from "the prison of my Indian boyhood . . . [that] strait-jacket of 19th century compensation fantasies" where "tokens of love, honour, courage" masqueraded "as rules instead of exceptions." Even years later, when he and his men are caught and tortured by the Japanese in Malaya, he counsels them, ''Hang on to your lives," wondering as he does so if he should have said "courage," then swiftly dismissing the thought with a snappish phrase: "But that is all fable." Stuffed Symbols. Despite this, Conway finds himself teased, almost...
...loved true honour more than fame," read the inscription under the picture of Robert Gardner in the Nashua, N.H. high school yearbook of 1941. Gardner became a professional soldier, fought under General George Patton in World War II, served in a combat unit in Korea. This spring Staff Sergeant Gardner was sent to South Viet Nam as a military "adviser." It was to be the last overseas assignment of his 20-year hitch; next year he planned to retire and enroll in a Florida umpires' school in hopes of becoming a major-league baseball umpire...
...ROBE OF HONOUR, by Alexander Cordell (384 pp.; Doubleday; $4.50), is a costume romance, and usually such books have almost no resemblance to legitimate novels. Ordinarily it is possible to judge each sort according to its own standards: Do broadswords and bustlines glitter sufficiently in the one, are reality's fore and backside faithfully drawn in the other? But now and then a writer with the skill of a Robert Graves succeeds in mixing the two styles. Author Cordell once again attempts the trick with some fairly entertaining results, but he is no Graves...
...first two volumes of his war memoirs, The Call to Honour (TIME, Oct. 31, 1955) and Unity (TIME, May 18, 1959), recorded De Gaulle's near-miraculous feat of creating a Free France from moral and military wreckage. Salvation, the third and last volume, covers the years between France's liberation (1944) and his resignation as France's first postwar Chief of State (1946). In a sense it is the most revealing book of the three. A hero at home and on the job is bound to lose some of the aura that surrounded...