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...next stop on the itinerary, classes were thrice weekly, as much for the security of having a mini-U.S.A. as for the discussions on the nature of the culture. Organized field trips explored various parts of the land from Kabuki theater to dawn fish markets. A tatami-mat coffee house near Ginkaku-ji temple that served saki and played early Dylan became an after-hours meeting place for many in the group, including the faculty...
...Dung admits that beginning in 1974, Hanoi broke the Paris accords by transporting massive reinforcements to South Viet Nam: "Great quantities of such matériel as tanks, armored cars, missiles, long-range artillery pieces and antiaircraft guns ... were sent to various battlefields." In addition, a 1,000-kilometer all-weather supply road was built to the south, as well as a concealed 5,000-kilometer gasoline pipeline. Accompanying the supply effort was a recruitment drive in the North that funneled "tens of thousands" of new troops into Hanoi's army...
...professional wrestling's ritual gestures, like the stunned, stylized way the wrestlers react to punches, with the dazed expression and wobbly walk they have all learned. The bad guy pleading for mercy with a fist clenched behind his back, the resounding stomp of the foot on the mat as each punch is delivered--these are the basic elements of professional wrestling. Second-rate actors like Man Mountain Mike (a quarter ton of lard) and Baron Scicluna use these elements to create a theater of fake violence and feigned pain. The crowd falls for it (the hungering suspension of disbelief...
Arnhem Bridge. El Alamein epitomized Montgomery's battlefield style: a long, careful buildup of matériel superiority followed by a massive frontal attack with secondary flanking pushes. These tactics were successful in many battles-at Mareth, Tunisia, the Sangro River in Italy, and Caen, France-but they also led to some disasters. The most notable was the ill-starred 1944 operation "Market Garden," a Montgomery plan to march straight into Germany's Ruhr Valley by seizing five bridges that crossed the Rhine in Holland. The drive collapsed at the crucial crossing, Arnhem Bridge, with a devastating defeat...
Later Montgomery admitted that he made "a bad mistake at Arnhem." At the time, however, he blamed the disaster on Eisenhower, charging that the American commander had failed to provide Monty's forces with enough matériel. Indeed, throughout the war Montgomery fought an acrimonious verbal battle against overall American command of the Allied armies. This war within a war became so heated that at one point Eisenhower threatened to force Montgomery's removal. Said Monty later: "Ike had simply no experience for the job. As a field commander he was very...