Word: reviewable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Said Essayist Paul Goodman, a self-styled anarchist, in the current New York Review of Books: "Some kind of martial law and thousands of arrests for sedition are quite thinkable...
That kind of assurance was what North American needed after last month's review-board report on the troubled Apollo program found "many deficiencies in design and engineering, manufacture and quality control." For Apollo's prime contractor, an aerospace giant relying on Government contracts for some 95% of its $2 billion-a-year sales, nothing could have been more damaging than such an indictment...
...last few years, Mailer has proved himself equal to the task of taking on the literary and political world. His review of Mary McCarthy's The Group was devastating, and his piece on LBJ's Hope For America is a classic of literary demolition. He even dedicated Cannibals and Christians to Johnson, "whose name inspired young men to cheer for me in public...
However, you are to be congratulated on the illustration included in your review -the finest photograph of an indignant ostrich ever taken...
Westmoreland's address was a sober, thoughtful review of the war. He offered no simplistic solutions. "I foresee, in the months ahead, some of the bitterest fighting of the war," he warned. In response to a question, he said that he did not see "any end of the war in sight. It's going to be a question of putting maximum pressure on the enemy anywhere and everywhere that we can. We will have to grind him down. In effect, we are fighting a war of attrition...