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...fire reaffirms the success-and diversity-of the American experiment. Often inchoate and inconsistent, instinctively self-serving yet naturally altruistic, the Negro fighting man is both savage in combat and gentle in his regard for the Vietnamese. He can clean out a bunker load of Viet Cong with a knife and two hand grenades, or offer smokes to a captured V.C. and then squat beside him trying to communicate in bastard Vietnamese. He may fight to prove his manhood-perhaps as a corrective to the matriarchal dominance of the Negro ghetto back home-or to save Viet...
Returning to Hollywood in 1958, Coburn saddled up for a Randolph Scott western called Ride Lonesome, which type-cast him as a heavy for the next seven years. In The Magnificent Seven, he spoke only 14 words, but his chilling portrayal of a sadistic, knife-throwing cowboy won him meatier roles, and eventually a chance to be Flint-both off-screen and on. The one thing he cannot abide, however, is the amorous women who are always sidling up to him in the street. "They don't see me-they see a guy named Flint. That...
...land in their drop zone, the 50-odd men in the platoon soon discover that they are in fact hopelessly trapped. After a few days of unrelieved agony, death becomes relatively unimportant. What matters more is how it will come. Using prose as direct and brutal as a trench knife to the gut, and with utter fidelity to military fact, the author meticulously ticks off the manner in which each man dies. The Cauldron may not win a prize as high art, but as an unsparing and authentic eyewitness account of the sights and sounds and pains...
...that such a coupling can be made, but equally sure that it should be made in a suggestive way that remains open to modification. There are certain parallels between Juvenal-Lowell on Rome and Lowell on New York, for example. Consider the lines "Behind each bush perhaps a knife" ("Central Park") and "If you take a walk at night/ carry a little silver, be prepared/ to think each shadow hides a knife or spar" ("The Vanity of Human Wishes"). The more significant parallels with Juvenal, however, lie in the Maine poems, where the wish "to break loose" is in profound...
...banners proclaimed: "Tito belongs to us. We belong to Tito." More than 100,000 throats cheered his appearance in Pristina's "Brotherhood and Unity Square" in southern Yugoslavia. But Tito was in anything but a brotherly mood. The country's unity, he warned, was threatened by "a knife in the back." "The whole of Yugoslavia is full of bitterness," he added. "They are striking behind our back unexpectedly...