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...with Irving on the manuscript, refused to back Irving's story. In exchange for immunity from prosecution, Suskind said he was willing to testify that contrary to his earlier affidavit, he had never seen Hughes; Hughes had never offered him that organic prune he had once mentioned to lend a touch of credence to the tale...
Griffiths' book is sharpest when he is dealing with subjects that lend themselves to the kind of heavy irony he practices-pacification, for example, WHAM (Winning the Hearts and Minds of the people, etc.), and Washington-based computerized evaluation of the ill-fated hamlet program. But Vietnam Inc. is more valuable when simply showing the pain and mess the war has caused. Because Griffiths, at his best, reinforces the sound historic conviction that this particular war could never have been won on terms useful to anyone, these sections have doubly tragic effect. They make the book...
...despair not only because they are removed from the political process, but also because they are basically alienated from their material lives, from the process of production and from industrial enterprise. Work seems like drudgery, like misery and a hardship whose central object is the sanctification of leisure. We lend no credence to our own stated goals, feel no control over our own day to day activity, sense real estrangement between ourselves and those with whom we work, and atrophy while feeling that there is something else we should be doing if only we could define...
Changes inside the magazine have followed the same principles. Innovations adopted one by one since 1938 have included text and picture boxes that lend diversity to the makeup and a variety of headline widths that bespeak distinctions between stories. The longer story headings, along with a more generous use of pictures, made our old headline type seem a bit fragile, so we are making it slightly heavier, although we retain the same type family...
Such sentiments do not lend themselves to poetic eloquence. There is one performance of shining distinction, that of Despo (stage name of Greek Actress Despo Diamantidou) as a revolutionary virago. She possesses an implacable authority that would make a top sergeant blench. With Despo in command, Genet's war might have ended in five minutes rather than five hours...