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...Eitel dreams about the great film he hopes to make some day-a story about an M.C. of a This-Is-Your-Life-like TV program who decides to become a saint. That idea is a vulgarized Mailer version of a book called Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West-who also wrote a little satirical tale of Hollywood (The Day of the Locust), which in one page shows more style, wit and distinction than could be combed from all The Deer Park...
Jeers for Arnold. At Valley Forge, Peale got a chance to lay aside his powder horn for his paintbox. Using bedticking for canvas, he painted Lafayette, Washington, General Nathanael Greene and a host of other officers, turned out miniatures on ivory on the side. Once, when painting General Washington in 1777, Peale found himself eyewitnessing a high moment in history. An aide handed Washington a dispatch. After one glance, Washington for a moment lost his iron control, jubilantly shouted, "Burgoyne is taken," then quickly resumed his solemn pose...
...most of the war. British Commander Howe "outmaneuvered Washington repeatedly and won battle after battle"; with more boldness, he might have won the war. Only two American generals win Ward's unqualified approval as battle leaders: Benedict Arnold, who led troops with "headlong energy . . . intrepidity and dash," and Nathanael Greene, who showed himself a master of guerrilla tactics in the southern campaign after Horatio Gates proved a fiasco...
...keep it together was something of a miracle. Every plague a commander could suffer fell upon him. The vainglorious Charles Lee led a shameful retreat at Monmouth, and after being court-martialed, he slandered Washington up & down the states. Congress fretted and fumbled; its appropriations, snapped Quartermaster General Nathanael Greene, were "no more equal to our wants than a sprat in a whale's belly." The encampment at Morristown during the winter of 1779-80 was far worse, by Freeman's measure, than the winter at Valley Forge two years earlier...
...between times produced some first-class fighting men. Examples: the Revolutionary War's Nathanael Greene, the Marine Corps' late Smedley Butler...