Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many recent writers have described and documented the technically perfected destruction that must come with a future war--the fast destruction from a flaring rocket or a low-slung tank, the lingering poison of a radioactive cloud. Professor Albert J. Guerard has undercut these catalogues of killing in "Night Journey," '5 future war by writing about the men who must fight it. He has written a frighteningly plausible story of those men and their...
...keynote of Guerard's war is ambiguity. The tired men of "Night Journey" try constantly to dig out the meaning of what is happening to them. The armies do not know where they are fighting, or against whom, or even if there is a war at all. What information they do get is manufactured and tailored behind the lines and they have no way of checking it; Guerard's narrator describes the "contradictory maps--those for the free civilian papers, those for the army papers, those for the writers of the tactical leaflets. Somewhere . . . was the official...
...style does not mirror the ambiguity of his story. His writing is simple and incisive, he has carefully drawn the rusting weapons carriers and fading fatigue uniforms of the demoralized armies. Yet the realism of this story is underlaid with symbolism; the symbolism of the sergeant's night journey to his childhood and attempted rebirth. Guerard tends to overwork a few images: the honey knob of a girl's shoulder and the hovering of aircraft above the battlefield, for instance. He relies upon the disturbing device of a narrator who narrates only at intervals, sees things far differently from...
...last days's journey, the group rigged jury sails, lashing two canoes together, and raising a poncho to catch the breeze. A strong north wind brought high speeds...
...boss trader." In 1942 F.D.R. switched him to Turkey, where Steinhardt was matched against Germany's crafty Franz von Papen in the diplomatic wrestle for Turkey's friendship. After the war, before coming to Ottawa, Steinhardt served the U.S. in troubled Czechoslovakia, then starting on its painful journey through the Communist rolling mill...