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...play. On a bleacher-sloped stage, the survivors and the accused confront not so much each other as their own benumbed memories of demonic events. The accused deny all responsibility, using the familiar argument that they were merely carrying out orders. The survivors, like men risen from the Inferno, recount horrors that, however familiar they may have become, still beggar the imagination with the terrible knowledge of what man can do to man. Those who lived draw word pictures of those who died: women whose wombs were injected with cement till they perished, naked men who were beaten bloody...
...less gifted hands. Rolvaag, for example, was the earnest but lackluster lieutenant governor in 1962 when he won the D.F.L. nomination for Governor simply because there was nobody else to challenge Republican Incumbent Elmer L. Andersen. To everybody's surprise, Rolvaag won by 91 votes after a recount that took three months...
...late Irish playwright Brendan Behan (The Hostage) and his younger, less successful playwright brother Dominic (Posterity Be Damned) were once described as the most alarming combination since assault and battery. In this graceless little memoir Dominic sets out to recount some of the escapades that gave them their reputation. Although he sometimes strikes a rollicking note by writing in an Irish dialect as heavy as Kilkenny dew, all Dominic proves is that 1) Brendan, who died in 1964, was especially unattractive and unmanageable when in his cups; and 2) drunks seldom are very funny except to those who are sharing...
...distinguished service to conservation." Other whoopers went to New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Idaho's Senator Frank Church, the Outdoor Writers Association and General Electric Co., but it was Lady Bird who soared in her acceptance speech. "The psalms and the poetry throughout our history recount the strength from the hills," she said. "Thank you for this whooping crane...
Punishment at the Post. Part of the narrative's charm is that the old man did not consciously set out to recount history, but only to leave his descendants a straightforward personal account of all he saw and did. And that was considerable. One of Meriwether's earliest memories, for example, is of the massacre at Pigeon Roost, Kentucky, when Indian followers of Tecumseh slaughtered 24 white settlers. He was only eleven, but his father sent him off on horseback to warn the Kentucky countryside that the Indians were on the rampage. At 14, he rode 100 miles...