Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bottom Card. In Elkhart, Ind., George Lewis Jr., picked up in a raid on a local gaming house and taken to the police station, raised his $25 release bond by picking the pocket of a fellow gambler...
...items are perfect jewels, or course. A few are trivial, a few fail stylistically, at least in sports, and the poems are generally unsuccessful. But the first rate predominates--the title piece, "Farewell, My Lovely," "The Morning of the Day They Did It," "Air Raid Drill," and "Death of a Pig," for instance, are as fine as almost anything White has written...
...strong drink (explains Grosz: "I come from a drinking family"). At his left, a fat-buttocked nude is grasped by a hand that protrudes from no body; below lies a soft, naked torso and legs, which Grosz says represents the memory of his mother, killed in a Berlin air raid. In the lower left, a demented soldier hobbles on a crutch, carrying his amputated left leg in the crook of his arm. That figure is a remembrance of the time Grosz spent in a mental military hospital during World War I (nervous breakdown following brain fever); one of his fellow...
...Wild One has the disturbing shock of reality (it is based on The Cyclists' Raid by Frank Rooney, about a gang of motorcycle hoodlums operating in California in 1949), but its main purpose seems to be to shock. No one can doubt that the movies are highly skillful at picturing brutality and violence, but The Wild One suggests that Hollywood may be making too much of a bad thing...
...different: one of the tough top kicks, showing his squad how easy it is to bail out of a plane, plummets sickeningly to his death because his parachute fails to open. The other noncoms meet equally grim fates: the scrappy corporal loses both feet in an airborne raid on occupied France, and the regimental sergeant major dies in the North African invasion...