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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Make No Mistake." To replace Lodge in Saigon, President Johnson named none other than the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Maxwell Taylor, thereby setting off a round of musical chairs in the Penta gon's military command (see box next page). In appointing Taylor, the President demonstrated the premium his Administration places on having a big-name ambassador in South Viet Nama premium so high that in recent weeks Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Attorney General Robert Kennedy, all anticipating Lodge's resignation, offered to resign their present jobs...
...might have to abandon their dogs, Mrs. Murayama, who is an ardent dog lover, ordered the paper to contact the expedition. Tell them to rescue the dogs, she said, and, if necessary, to abandon the Japanese. Asahi's editors refused. They also refused when she demanded a Page One story on her experience at an art show attended by Emperor Hirohito: when she approached too near the imperial presence, Mrs. Murayama was rudely jostled by a guard...
...portrait painters, but the daguerreotype and the photograph in the end reduced this broad popular stream of American art to a trickle. The rise and decline of portraiture is the most striking theme of a World's Fair exhibit called "Four Centuries of American Masterpieces" (see opposite page) and housed in the Better Living Center...
...June 1815," and cover every campaign and battle in between. They are entrancingly peppered with red and blue bars, arrows, boxes, dots, circles, cross-hatchings, and ominous notes like: "The Kamenski shown here is not the general of that name on Map 70." Facing each map is a dense page of breathless prose: "Part of the Russian first and second lines now toughly reformed and began firing wildly to the rear; Murat's leading divisions seemed hopelessly trapped. Instead, the cavalry of the Guard burst forward." Or: "On 11 October, Bernadotte halted short of Munich in a cloud...
...with pitiless banality, time passed." So writes James T. Farrell on page 399 of his 18th novel, accurately describing the way time has passed for his characters, and for the reader, in the preceding 398 pages. Banality is what Farrell's novel is about, and it is also the novel's sole literary device. The people of the book are joyless, hateless, empty of good or evil, fleshy machines that transmit at the audible level the prattle of Babbittry and, octaves above, the silent scream of tedium. The prose in which they are described is also joyless...