Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHISTLE by James Jones
When James Jones died last year he was trying desperately to finish Whistle, his final installment of a trilogy begun with From Here to Eternity and extended through The Thin Red Line. Whistle, Jones wrote, would "say just about everything I have ever had to say, or will ever have...
The novel chronicles the postcombat experiences of four World War II infantrymen: Mart Winch, John Strange, Bobby Prell and Marion Landers. All noncoms from the same outfit, three of them wounded, the fourth ill with the same kind of congestive heart condition that killed Jones, they ship home from the...
In one pivotal episode, the protagonists conspire to reverse a surgical decision to amputate Prell's shattered legs. Such a quixotic effort is at least possible; but in Whistle the men not only succeed, they then win approval from the hospital brass. Jones has come a long, sad way...
Friday, March 10: Greek and Latin Department Lecture: Dr. Peter V. Jones Cambridge University, Director of Cambridge Greek Project, on "Reading Greek." Davis Lounge, Schneider Center, 12:30 p.m.