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...Korean war, former Marine Robert Leckie dramatically reconstructs the bloody, bitter battles of a frustrating war. He brings alive the shock of the North Korean invasion, the "bugouts" of terrified G.I.s, the blare of Chinese bugles in the night, the quiet heroism of soldiers and marines dying on nameless hillsides in an alien land. Like many another marine. Leckie has a low opinion of General Douglas MacArthur, whom he charges with making a fatal mistake in splitting his forces for the dash to the Yalu River. Result was the disastrous rout of U.S. forces by the Chinese Communists, so poignantly...
...wrote this picture, Truman Capote and Playwright Archibald, unhappily press hard, much harder than James did, for the psychiatric interpretation. They have obviously failed to perceive that in suggesting a normal, everyday basis for the ghastly phenomena, they must inevitably relieve the spectator of his nameless horror of what happens. But isn't horror, when all's said and done, the one important experience this tale is intended to communicate...
...boom in folk music. This is correct, one needs only to see the happy faces of coffee- house owners, guitar-and-banjo-makers, professional folksingers to verify the fact. Some people, including myself, will tell you folk music suffers from renaissance--the trios and quartets (which shall be nameless) begin turning out corrupt, oompah versions of perfectly good folk songs; no lover of folk musics enjoys hearing the lush, superfatted, slick results. The task of separating what we like from the phony folk music becomes more difficult all the time, anyway. Here, then, is a one- sided incredibly opinionated, narrow...
...Thurber's readers, all paid-up members of the age, of anxiety, knew very well they were in bad shape, and so Walter Mitty's moonings were hauntingly their own. So was Grant's frightful hangover as he surrendered confusedly to Lee at Appomattox, and the nameless little man's fright as he stood before the house that looked to him like a great, crouching wife...
...BUREAUCRACY. "Things in our Government today are not done by individuals; they are done by bureaus, by offices, by groups, by nameless organizations. A man gets to be the head of an organisation. He says, 'This got started before I came in here so I cannot be blamed.' In a short time he leaves. The new man takes over, and he can say the same thing. If you really had set out to devise a system for evasion of responsibility, you couldn't have done better...