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John Woo's film concentrates on a non-com, Joe Enders (Nicolas Cage), a Marine ordered to guard one of the code talkers, Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach). Joe is to protect the Navajo if possible, to kill him if it looks as if Ben will be captured by the Japanese. Joe, however, is a bit shell-shocked, or as we now say, suffering post-traumatic stress syndrome. He has followed orders before, and, as a result, is the sole, death-haunted survivor of a unit he led into an ambush. He resolves not to become too close...
...West Indies. The man's speech was obviously that of a Scot. He had an air of authority, yet Bell concluded that he was not an officer. The reason: he did not remove his hat-a miscue that Bell knew could only have been committed by a non-com not yet used to civilian ways...
...businesses with the spending and taxation policies of federal, state and local governments. The capitalist economy may thus eventually take on some features of socialism, just as socialism over the years has adopted some practices of capitalism. Yet a nation that accounts annually for nearly half of the non-Com munist world's gross national product, and has more individual business enterprises than many countries have people, is surely strong and diverse enough to accommodate the best features of both systems. ∙ Donald M. Morrison
...treatment, by reporting the content of psychiatric sessions to his superiors. In fact, there is little room for privacy in the military approach to psychotherapy, principally a system called "mental hygiene consultation," in which the soldier-patient is visited by a team consisting of his immediate superior (usually a non-com), his commanding officer and a psychiatrist. It is often those very superiors who are at the root of the soldier's problem. To Switkes, this was less therapy than "group intimidation," in which the attending psychiatrist plays merely a consultant role. Disposition of the case rests not with...
...Europe, he wouldn't have stayed but gone to Africa to hunt water buffaloes or to America to search for gold. But born in the land of the ranch and the Colt, he shot his way up to sheriff. He's a legionnaire, a regular army non-com who earns his stripes, one after the other. He makes me think of Bernadotte [the French marshal who became King Charles XIV of Sweden], a sergeant who's been crowned. An efficient man without any style. I rather like Johnson. He doesn't even take the trouble...