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...girls - some of them middle-aged - who have not lived in this messy world, the book offers only irony and scorn, the scorn of the combat veteran for the rear-echelon soldier. Yet Author Weldon feels a kind of terror in the presence of the scarcely helpless woman of the future, as projected by Scarlet's daughter Byzantia. Condescending to her mother's generation, Byzantia sees men as the symptom "of a fearful disease from which you all suffered" With Byzantia, "nothing is hidden, nothing is feared. " Everything is discussed - that is, "rendered harmless" - and then "simply forgotten...
Every age has enjoyed a peek in the rear-view mirror...
...vision turned out to be a peculiarly Yankee notion of universal principles translatable into an earthly Utopia. Fuller's trademark word was Dymaxion, which meant getting the most out of available technology. Dymaxion houses would solve the world's shelter problems. Dymaxion cars, steered by a single rear wheel, could park in a space only one foot larger than the car itself. Today, Fuller holds more than 20 patents, mostly for structural designs still...
Endsweep, commanded by Rear Admiral Brian McCauley, will use some new minesweeping vehicles, about 50 of the huge Sikorsky "Sea Stallion" helicopters. Normally equipped with two 2,850-h.p. engines, the eleven-ton Sea Stallion has the strength to haul the heavy and complicated electronic gear needed for locating and detonating mines. There are four methods...
...Herbert's math, the half million fighting men the U.S. had in South Viet Nam at the height of the war actually included less than 50,000 grunts. Nine out of ten soldiers were in the rear or in noncombat jobs at the front. This book offers the reader dreadful panoramas of the Hieronymous Bosch Viet Nam landscape as it can be seen only by the insider: American interrogation experts presiding over whippings and water torture and electric-shock "therapy" of V.C. suspects (including women), fire bases overrun by enemy sapper squads because the defenders were all stoned...