Word: makeshiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jaws by his former playmate, a freed slave. The rest of the family goes searching for him, enduring separation, fear and wanton slaughter, before they return home just in time to ride off for Sunday services at the village church. There, naturally, the lost son hobbles in on a makeshift crutch. Shenandoah's final comment on the futility of war conveys the odd impression that it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people...
...third theory is that the Loeb dwarfs actors and productions. The stage is awfully big, and the bulk of the seats are further back than in the makeshift theatres. Harvard's actors are generally much better at expressing things with their faces than with body movement. The quivering of the mouth that works in the Ex is lost to the main stage audience, and directors often complain that an actor who seems full of vitality and charm in a practice room, and thereby wins a part, turns out not to be able to project his warmth on the stage...
Quincy House tries music and movies. The movies work, when they're in focus. A montage of selected orgy scenes appears on the screen in one scene break, a collection of sneers from great art in the next. Einar Anderson's score seems a little makeshift, and the orchestra under-rehearsed. But the mock-heroic music often plays against the everpresent ranting on the stage with satiric punch, and covers up some of the still-shaky set changes...
...Thunderchiefs and Skyraiders cut the bridges at Thanhhoa, above Vinh and at Dong Phuong Thuong (see map), roving jets prowled highways and rail lines, shooting up trucks and destroying the North Vietnamese's scanty rolling stock. Though the Communists could still cross their unbridged rivers by arranging makeshift spans of wicker boats at night, they were being forced more and more to avoid the roads...
...months ago, a French planter in South Viet Nam was captured by the Viet Cong. Before he was freed, he reports, his captors were bombed for 17 days but kept moving. Total guerrilla casualties: one dead. Further, as was shown in Korea, masses of manpower can repair roads and makeshift bridges overnight. Says a U.S. military officer in Laos: "A 500-lb. bomb makes a hole five feet deep and ten feet across. With 50 coolies filling the hole and packing it with a battering ram the road can be ready again the next day." Moreover, the North Vietnamese funnel...