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...slaughtered the women and children along with the men; who deprived wounded soldiers under his own command of medical attention; who disregarded the safety of his troops to the extent of sending them into hostile territory with insufficient military preparation and protection to their almost certain (and quite pointless) death; who was convicted of one desertion of his own troops and was suspected of others; who either committed perjury or at least gave incorrect, damaging testimony in court to satisfy a personal spite; who disobeyed specific orders given by the one friend he seems to have retained...
...balance ups with downs, Doris plays mermaid for her salty dad, Arthur Godfrey, who makes his painless and pointless film debut as the skipper of a glass bottom boat for sea-sighters. At one point Godfrey takes up his ukulele to strum a Doris Day hit tune of yore. The old pro may believe that reminiscing is as good a way as any to buoy up spirits aboard a doomed ship...
...would establish a militaristic national assembly." If Tri Quang's usually pear-shaped tones lost some of their resonance, it was because, for all the week's burnt offerings to the Buddhist cause, Premier Ky still had the upper hand in a nation beginning to weary of pointless civil strife amid a genuine, far more deadly battle for national survival against the Communists...
...afraid," wrote Robert Ely, editor-publisher of The Sixties, "this symposium will be another occasion for self-congratulation by little-magazine editors. So I will say a few rude words. American little magazines are for the most part utterly pointless. Almost all are mediocre. A near example is our host, The Carleton Miscellany. It has had a pointless quality about it ever since...
...that the Sisk Bill is a fraud, that it was not offered in good faith, and that anyway the home rule movement should not be in such unseemly haste to back down. Besides, they argue, the Senate and the Administration have not yet backed down and it would be pointless for local home rule forces to be the first ones...