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Chauvinists in the Corps of Cadets always maintained that it would be a cold day before West Point bestowed its prestigious Sylvanus Thayer Award on a woman. Well it snowed, in early October on the Plain last week, and there stood Clare Boothe Luce, 76, accepting that award from General Andrew Goodpaster for her accomplishments in politics, diplomacy and the arts. "I suspect," said Luce, "that the fact that this is the first year that there are women in all four classes [at the Point] is not unrelated to my good fortune." Luce accepted an engraved saber from ranking cadet...
...participant in the complicated travesty of Gilmore's death. The writer has mobilized a shrewdness to match Gilmore's own punkish daring and jailhouse self-abnegation. Old Aquarius has silenced his bustling, manic, intrusive voice. His prose in this thousand-page trek is a Conestoga of American plain style: it is banal, idiomatic and somehow grainy, like the scenes in 1950s pornographic films in which the characters meet and part like neighborhood dogs, the men never taking their socks...
Irving of Brooklyn turned from the king somewhat baffled and spoke to St. John. And so the challenge was accepted, and the knights went to separate sides of the great field. It was a vast plain with great wooden and stone stands. And all the maidens crowded the seats, while the knights donned their armor...
...twenties, lean, slight, light-skinned, freckled, pale-eyed, sharp-faced. He wears round wire-rimmed spectacles like Bertolt Brecht's and a bush of red hair teased out as if in ongoing electrocution. His chin and lips are hairless. No hippie he, his clothes are rumpled but clean, plain, even severe: in Ambrose's phrase, he dresses like a minor member of the North Korean U.N. delegation...
SOME PEOPLE WOULD CALL Robert Shaplen brave. Others would say that he is just plain crazy. Anybody who attempts to summarize 30 years of modern Asian history in a single volume is probably a little of both. A Turning Wheel is Shaplen's magnum opus, an enormous work on his years as a correspondent in Asia. Like any sweeeping work, it has its ups and downs. If Shaplen's book is flawed by the sheer breadth of his topic, it is held together by the author's personal approach. But A Turning Wheel is also a strangely unfulfilling work, copious...