Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swept the scrub-grown slopes and rocky ridges of the An Lao Valley in a furious, 41-day string of fights that killed 1,342 Communist soldiers and netted 250 enemy weapons. The Reds moved back in when the Air Cav left, but last week-on the foggy coastal plain east of An Lao-they received an encore. "Operation Davy Crockett" proved as sharp-eyed as its namesake...
Love, Modern-Style. He got there, in the past four months, singing unmelodious songs in a plain, unemotional, unmusical voice. His repertory is the same protest, parent-baiting message music that is now becoming passé in the States. One of his hits, La Guerre, sounds like a medley of Eve of Destruction and Blowin' in the Wind...
Known by Name. With student cars banned on the campus, some students grumble about their isolation. Most students, however, appreciate the beauty of the rolling, rocky site, which rises from a grassy plain to craggy hills overlooking Monterey Bay. Students ride bikes, wear khakis and Bermuda shorts, enjoy a warm informality with their teachers. "I can walk around here and call half the people by name," says bearded Freshman Harris Freeman, "and that to me is worth more than all the cultural advantages of a big university...
...beneath the stacks in Widener. Instead, Random House saw fit to publish this material in fairly glamorous form, with 233 pages of fine paper and large print. In this setting, such pieces as Faulkner's 1935 review of a book entitled Test Pilot by Jimmy Collins look just plain silly...
Political leadership is not the art of mimicking popular feeling but of shaping, articulating and responding to it. whether intentionally or through plain lack of ability, the candidates at the YD's convention were mostly mimics, and rather poor ones, of what they considered the Style of Youth. Like a paunchy Political Science professor who throws away what knowledge he may have gleaned in thirty years to become a surfer at the age of sixty, they'll deserve every spill they take...