Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commandos. Nasser, clearly stung by recent demonstrations against him in Baghdad, took an angry swipe at Iraqi military performance, asking sarcastically: "Why has the enemy not been attacking your forces?" In Amman, pro-Nasser and anti-Nasser guerrillas clashed twice, killing at least two of their number and taking rival prisoners. As the splits in Arab unity grew deeper each day, Beirut Columnist Adel Malek declared: "What is really needed now is a cease-fire among the Arabs...
Anthropologist Margaret Mead goes further. In her view, the advent of the atomic bomb in 1945 split humanity into rival camps: the old are "immigrants" in a world they control but do not understand; the young are natives but still lack power. United by instant communications that dramatize crises everywhere, the new youth international views its elders as irresponsible?insensitive to global dangers like nuclear holocaust. In this situation, Miss Mead argues that much of the world is on the verge of a "prefigurative" culture in which "the young, free to act on their own initiative, can lead the elders...
...allied to Science Fiction's aspiration towards myth. The race had no political purpose outside the vague notion of propaganda value. But it did fulfill a widespread public need to make life more endurable. The story had its deaths and triumphs, and may yet have its Frankenstein. It can rival 2001 in its epic sweep and pointed vagueness...
Something of a legend among rival newsmen for being in the right place at the right time, Arnett combines hustle with a discerning eye for detail and an acute ear for devastating quotes, including those that symbolize the tragedy of the war. He was there, for example, when an Army major looked over the ruins of Ben Tre after the Tet offensive and said, "The city had to be destroyed in order to save...
...Pamela McMyler)-his brother's girl, daughter of the woman the Duke himself loved and lost-has come to stay. She has been seeing a good deal of that young trail hand from over at the Tunstall place, boy name of Billy Bonney (Geoffrey Deuel). Billy's rival of legend, a onetime buffalo hunter who calls himself Pat Garrett (Glenn Corbett), turns up one night, and that just sets things to steaming. Add an itchy killer for hire (Chris George), a sidewinder (Richard Jaeckel) bent on gunning Billy, and a bunch of cutthroats...