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...squeamish. No one has brought back a truer, tougher fictional report on jungle warfare since Norman Mailer wrote The Naked and the Dead. But the shocks in Look Down in Mercy are shocks of event minus droning obscenities. Novelist Baxter writes his story of the crackup of Captain Anthony Kent with what restraint...
...Captain Kent begins dropping his ethical ballast well before he reaches combat. The first value to go is fidelity. Kent loves the wife he left in England and has told himself he will be faithful to her. But the night comes when, sodden with gin and boredom, he seduces a Eurasian girl, mistaking her gasps of pain for pleasure. Afterwards, he loathes himself and the girl...
...Kent wants to be a good company commander, but when he is not panicky he is petty. Worse for him, capture and torture show him up as a coward. Kicked and loathsomely humiliated, Kent retches but refuses to reveal more than his name, rank and serial number. Then he is shown one of his enlisted men decapitated, and another strung up nude and bayoneted, "streamers of gut sticking to the bare legs." When the Japanese officer shouts, "You, now!" Kent blurts out everything he knows...
...counter Old Soldier Downer, the Liberal coalition put up a speaker whose war record entitled him to talk "in the same fashion. Interior Minister W. S. Kent Hughes, 56, fought in Gallipoli and Palestine in World War I, was a Rhodes scholar and an Olympic hurdler between wars, and in World War II fought in Malaya as a staff officer of the 8th division. Captured at the same time as Downer, he also spent 3½ years in Japanese prison camps. Said Kent Hughes in a dramatic and emotional speech: "Only those who have passed along the purgatorial path...
Army took the lead with four minutes gone in the last quarter as Dick Cardillo and Kent Poore made three long set shots to give the Cadets a 54-50 lead...