Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Savages & Cavalry. Setting his story n a different locale, the Southwest, but at about the same period. New Mexico's prolific Paul Horgan runs into somewhat similar trouble with his fictional hero. Matthew Hazard, U.S. cavalry officer, is coltishly appealing, brave, leathery, and a West Pointer. By page 100 he is out n Arizona Territory looking for hostile Apaches, and he should loom larger than life, but somehow he looks smaller. The real heroes are again the landscape and the history that fills...
After almost 20 years as a U.S. career diplomat (he resigned in 1953) and onetime head of the Voice of America, Charles W. (for Wheeler) Thayer does not believe in lying diplomacy. In this urbane, witty and information-packed volume of shoptalk about the diplomatic life, West Pointer ('33) Thayer outlines his notion that diplomats ought to rely on patience, sound education, a controlled temper-and honesty. That, feels Thayer, is the basis of the West's diplomatic tradition, despite occasional blunders and deceits. But there is another diplomatic school, the Byzantine, and its deceitful and violent tradition...