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...trial, and then in the jail again before the execution. In between these events are Nat's recollections of his own past. Styron's weaving of past and present is complex but in no way confusing. It is a great credit to Styron's art that he can leap about chronologically and yet maintain the drama and clarity of the story. Throughout the novel, Nat maintains a vague distance from the insurrection and the trial. Emotional build-up instead develops from isolated experiences he has under the yoke of different masters. But as the book proceeds, the suppressed rage intensifies...
...another meeting, Johnson spent two hours with 15 Harvard professors, including Nobel-Prizewinning Physicist Edward Purcell, who wrote him in August with a list of questions about Viet Nam. The professors, representing the "troubled middle" of academe, neither urged Johnson to get out of Viet Nam nor to leap into an ill-timed bombing pause. But they did want to know whether some move toward de-escalation could be made. "We are groping for ways out of this war," the President said, but he added: "There is absolutely no sign that these fellows want...
...implication that Father James Groppi's militancy is responsible for riots and the present lack of an open-housing ordinance in Milwaukee [Sept. 15]. His militancy seems to be the most positive force for improvement of conditions for the city's Negro population. You charge that he "leaped into the issue"; while your previous statement says that the issue had been proposed for debate in city council five times, and had five times been refused. Action following this could hardly be termed a headlong "leap." Your solution is that either Father Groppi cool off or that the white...
...engage them in battle and then whirl back to the landing pads of the Air Cav "golf course"at An Khe in the Central Highlands to await the next alarm. Brilliantly executed, the assignment helped to turn the tide against the Communists. The Air Cav carried out 53 major leap-and-strike operations in 52 weeks ranging from the la Drang Valley near Cambodia to the coastal plains of the South China Sea, killing 5,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers and capturing another...
While this explanation is simple enough (until you throw in leap years and such), the ramifications are manifold. Foremost is the delay of the Yale weekend to Thanksgiving vacation. This situation has arisen before: the last time by the calendar was 1961, then more recently in 1963 when the assassination of President Kennedy occasioned a postponement...