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...patrol a defense perimeter, detect enemy booby traps and set out their own, establish listening posts; they spend 29 hours practicing night defense and are taught to catch wild animals to supplement their C rations. They also see a full-size Viet Cong prisoner stockade, including a solitary-confinement pit, and learn how to evade their captors' questions. Even at night, G.I.s in the main camp are liable to be attacked by "terrorists" from Vinh Hoa. Above all, they are taught to be on the alert against enemy ambush. Says Sergeant Louis A. Peterson, a Viet Nam veteran whose...
...claim, today's "shadows are deep," it is time not to "address the heavens," but to address mere men possessed by "philosophical" visions and patriotic slogans, to demand that men analyze what they are arguing about and perhaps dying for. Those bits of language that pit man against man may cover broad areas of agreement. We don't need more answers. We need better questions...
Though Negroes have long had total acceptance in the operatic world as singers (after all, a voice is a voice), they have had slower going in the orchestra pit. Lewis' only notable predecessor as a Negro conductor was Dean Dixon, now 50, who became the first Negro ever to lead a major U.S. orchestra when he guest-conducted the New York Philharmonic and the NBC Symphony in the early 1940s. But discouraged by his chances of landing a permanent job in the U.S., he moved to Europe in 1949, then to Australia, where he is currently conductor...
...also lived by it; it was his Vergil, guide to those infernal regions from which he returned a man possessed by demons. He exorcised them by the masterpiece called Under the Volcano, which can be read as a novel but understood only as a parable of the pit. "William James if not Freud," he wrote in a letter to his British publisher, "would certainly agree with me when I say that the agonies of the drunkard find their most accurate poetic analogue in the agonies of the mystic who has abused his powers...
...long time ago." The government's protective measures (a virtual ban on coal imports, a twopence-per-gallon tax on oil) have been to no avail. And, despite promises that they will get new jobs, the 120,000 miners who will be thrown out of work by the pit closures are no longer sure that Alf Robens is their best friend. Mine unions now call Robens "the self-worshiping Socialist...