Word: misted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troublesome oddity is that although all of this fine rowdyism is described from the viewpoint of the twelve-year-old Albert, a mist of ruefulness and loss drifts across the narrative. Even when Albert has blundered beyond the streets controlled by Catholic and Jewish slum-runners into a schoolyard held by Negroes and seems about to have his gizzard sliced, the tone is one of marveling reminiscence, not fright. Albert's perceptions are never solidly those of a twelve-year-old apprentice delinquent; often they are those of a 45-year-old writer. "Whistling, he bounced into Benny...
Administration Democrats dismissed the proliferating anti-Johnson groups with bored shrugs. A White House staffer scoffed: "All it takes is two people with a mimeograph machine and the cooperation of the New York Times. It looks like a movement, but the moment you touch it, it dissolves into mist." Wyoming's Democratic Senator Gale McGee urged Johnson to put purely political considerations behind him and concentrate on winning the war. "The issue is so critical that if I were in a position to talk to the President," said McGee, "it would be with the suggestion that he be prepared...
Grudging Concession. While this activity went on behind the lines, the fate of troops at the front was still shrouded in a mist of claims and counterclaims. First, the federal troops of Major General Yakubu Gowon announced that they had captured the university town of Nsukka on the wooded northwestern plateau of Biafra, after days of shelling it with heavy mortars and howitzers. Radio Biafra grudgingly conceded the federal victory but accused the federals of using "white mercenaries who were painted black"-though no unprejudiced observer has spotted any such creatures. Then, next day, it proclaimed that Nsukka had been...
Bare Hands. The resurgence of fighting in the mist-shrouded Highlands came after a company of the 173rd Airborne Brigade made contact with North Vietnamese regulars who had been waiting in sanctuaries across the border in Cambodia. When the Americans brushed into a small knot of the Communist forces, they pursued their quarry up a muddy hillside in the jungle near Dak To, seven miles from where the frontiers of Cambodia, Laos and South Viet Nam meet. The U.S. troops were led right into a torrent of machine-gun fire from 30 sandbagged bunkers atop the slope. By the time...
...biting than its component parts promise? First, Gold's immigrant-in-America story has been overworked in the past; it is almost a tedious commonplace, for example, that yet another nice Jewish girl breaks tradition and marries a goy. Second, the author sees his characters through a nostalgic mist so thick as to preclude more than a fleeting glimpse of evil. Even racketeers emerge as loving family men who take hard candies home to the kiddies...