Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Having had the privilege of knowing and working with Lieut. General Victor H. Krulak, it was particularly pleasing to me to read TIME'S evaluation of this remarkable man [June 7]. You have presented "The Brute" briefly and in true perspective as a Marine and patriot. When a former Navy man expresses sentimentality concerning a news story about a Marine, you must understand that he speaks with conviction...
...walls: "It is prohibited to prohibit!" The courtyard became a bazaar representing the whole spectrum of the world's left. Overnight, at least ten newspapers appeared-some mimeographed and others printed at cost by sympathetic outside publishers. Peking-style posters covered the courtyard walls. One poster read: "One must not confuse love and revolution. Both are made, but their charm is different." Said another: "Let imagination rule...
...called Or I'll Dress You in Mourning, a biography of El Cordobés, by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, who also wrote Is Paris Burning? (a proposition on which Willie would lay even money at the moment). At night, while Myra was washing her hair, Willie read about how El Cordobes, born Manuel Benitez, now 32, got to be champ-fighting 133 bulls in a single summer, a lot of them bums that even Rocky Marciano would have been ashamed to face. Some were purposely starved to make them weak. Others had sandbags dropped on their backs...
Died. Sir Herbert Read, 74, poet, critic and catholic thinker; of cancer; in Stonegrave, England. An outspoken pacifist prior to World War I, Read nonetheless joined the Royal Army in 1915, won the Distinguished Service Order and Military Cross for heroism in the trenches. He preferred the romantic poets when everyone from Hemingway to T. S. Eliot was joining the Lost Generation, and explained abstract art when its meaning eluded many...
...Adam Smith" has been read with glee in the Big Board jungle ever since his antic commentaries about the stock market first appeared in New York magazine. The articles were not only clear and authentic, but also sharply satirical. Based on those articles, The Money-Game is a highly original look at the art of investing, as well as a modest and amusing contribution to popular psychology. Smith/Goodman tells about the young woman who confuses her shares in Comsat with procreative urges ("'Every time they fire off one of those satellites, I think, that's mine, that...