Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Colonel Xu's infantry tactics reflect the lessons he learned during the Tet offensive when he threw whole battalions into the city only to see them badly battered. Now he slips small, squad-size units-ten infantrymen and two or three women who handle the cooking-past South Vietnamese...
Bob Hope, D.F.A., comedian. Through you we have learned to laugh at every form of pomposity and pretense, but most of all at ourselves.
In those three decades, Perutz discovered much of what is now known about the hemoglobin molecule, which he rightly calls "an incredible apparatus." Scientists have long known that hemoglobin in the bloodstream carries oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues and returns waste products from the tissues to be...
Off-Camera. Cohn wrote the book from what he claims to be "the perspective of years," but in looking back over his 19 "incredible months" with the Senator, he writes like a man who has remembered everything and learned nothing. Recalling his library-raiding tour of USIS offices in Europe...
How deep should well-amused readers poke beneath the jaunty black humor and Joycean wordplay? This remains a perennial Burgess puzzle. He is a composer and music critic, a one-time lecturer in phonetics, a learned, lapsed Catholic, and-not the least-a superb writer. Unlike Graham Greene, he does...