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Camelot--An overblown adaptation of the Lerner & Lowe musical, with Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave. But swell music. At the FRESH POND in Fresh Pond, Cambridge...
Camelot--An overblown adaptation of the Lerner & Lowe musical, with Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave. But swell music. At the FRESH POND in Fresh Pond, Cambridge...
Mindful of the overblown optimism of earlier days in the war, General Abrams is not yet willing to say that he has the enemy on the run. He recently told Washington that he thinks the third-wave offensive began late in August and then petered out. The Communists could renew it at any moment, he said, or they could simply stretch out their timetable. They might even abandon the attack altogether. If they do, Abrams thinks that Hanoi might rapidly ask for a cease-fire and begin negotiating in earnest at the Paris talks. But he emphasizes that that...
...Kind of Victory. Still, it was pretty thin fare for a crusade that set for itself no less a task than the conquest of poverty. No doubt the goals were too ambitious. Between the exaggerated aims set forth in overblown speeches by the campaign's leaders and a hardening attitude on the part of Congress, there was no middle ground, and disappointment was the inevitable result...
...image, of course, is wildly overblown, but America's own mythmakers are largely to blame. In U.S. folklore, nothing has been more romanticized than guns and the larger-than-life men who wielded them. From the nation's beginnings, in fact and fiction, the gun has been provider and protector. The Pilgrim gained a foothold with his harquebus. A legion of loners won the West with Colt .45 Peacemakers holstered at their hips or Winchester 73 repeaters cradled in their arms...