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Sir: Our military career people must feel pretty frustrated to find themselves blamed for failures that are manifestly the result of political constraints. The ironic part is that if we neglect our defenses and spurn our defenders, another Pearl Harbor may occur. Then public feeling will well up, and courting...
Love of Gab. Anthony Burgess is not merely a specialist with some painfully acquired, crotchety expertise in, say, lesser metaphysical lyrical poets. His intelligence functions at all levels on a list of subjects that includes Dickens, Kipling, Sartre, Greene, Waugh, Koestler, Milton, "The Writer As Drunk" (Dylan Thomas and Brendan...
Under Curtis' exuberant, free-spending management, the Post grew up with the century. It was the expansive age of oil and railroad fortunes and of Horatio Alger; young, middle-class men everywhere were ambitious, eager to make money. The Post captured their readership with such articles as "How I...
THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Guns at Batasi (1964), a tart, topical drama about a military coup in Africa, starring Richard Attenborough as a starched relic of the Kipling era, hopelessly out of touch with the age of Kenyatta.
Kipling's instructions are clear enough: ;'If you can make one heap of all your winnings;/ And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,/ And lose, and start again at your beginnings . . ." Moreton Frewen, Winston Churchill's scapegrace uncle, could do all of this and...