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...unmourned. Hefty (3 lbs. when fully loaded) and cursed with a nasty recoil, the pistol was as easy to handle as a howitzer. For decades Army instructors would joke: "Fire seven rounds and if the enemy is still coming, throw it at him " On the other hand, it rarely jammed and, if you did manage to hit something there would not be much left of it. Carried mostly by officers, aviators and military police the weapon has proved so durable that the Army still draws upon its cache of 1.9 million .45s bought by the end of World...
...life (pride in country, faith in government, the idea of manhood and the worth of the dollar, to begin the list) that even now the damage has not yet been properly assessed. When the country came to, some time in the mid-'70s, it was stunned. In moral recoil from the military failure and the huge, lurid futility of the excursion, Americans did a humanly understandable thing: they suppressed the memory of Viet Nam. They tried to recover from the wound by denying...
...weeks of this 36-week season, in which TOT is scheduled to give 233 performances in 57 cities, towns and hamlets. A tolerance for long bus rides and fast-food joints is also helpful. Yes, TOT members should have a deep love of opera. But they also must not recoil at the idea of performing La Bohème on the gym floor of the junior high in Eagle Pass, Texas, or changing costumes in the bathrooms in the lobby of the high school in Show Low, Ariz. New recruits are advised to keep their voices in shape and their...
...fame he would be juggling by 1939, but much larger and more influential than the poets and painters around the studios of the Bateau-Lavoir. It was a public of admiring consumers, the cultivated gratin of Europe, people who needed a modern Rubens. Moreover, there had been a general recoil from extreme avant-garde art, on principle, after 1918. What seemed necessary was reconstruction, not more iconoclasm, or, in the words of Jean Cocteau, a rappel à l'ordre (call to order), which would place art under the normalizing sway of classical nostalgia. "Revolutionary" art simply did not look good...
...seventies. He doesn't believe the credo of the inevitability of poverty or inequality. Harrington's attitude is either naive or refreshing, depending on your political bent. Reading his book, however, is sort of like plunging into ice-cold water on a hot, lazy day--an initial shock, recoil, and then invigoration. For Harrington offers a seductive programme, a rejection of the seventies' acquiescence to in-justice. He tries to persuade us to hope again...