Word: rum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PRIVATE YANKEE DOODLE (305 pp.)-Joseph Plumb Martin-Little, Brown ($6.50). The Revolutionary War often was fought with tactics that were quaintly old-fashioned or grimly futuristic. During the battle for Fort Mercer, N.J., in 1777, the Americans ran short of ammunition, and soldiers were offered a gill of rum (4 oz.) to retrieve 32-lb. British cannon balls that had fallen short of the mark. U.S. guns then lobbed them back at the British. Near Petersburg, Va., in the closing days of the war, the British captured 700 Negro slaves who had caught smallpox, and deliberately sent them among...
...soiled red coat with heavily padded shoulders. To passing wolf packs of mufti-clad U.S. marines and sailors, he calls in an inviting voice: "Hey, Meester! Want to see nice French movies? Nice exhibition? You want nice girls?" "Take It off" The "good time" joints feature underlighted interiors, watered rum, tequila, gin and vodka of local manufacture, adulterated whisky, and tiny bottles of beer that cost 50? apiece...
Under the influence of a prodigious assortment of Christmas bottles-ginger wine, Irish whisky, Portuguese claret, South African sherry, rum, port, eggnog, "Pineapple Fortified" and ale-Sandra is provided with a bit of past for her future...
Died. The Lord Invader (real name: Rupert Westmore Grant), 47. Trinidad-bred Calypso king, a master of ribald improvisation, whose creations included World War II's ubiquitous Rum and Coca-Cola; of complications after surgery; in a Harlem hospital...
...midway through the book, as the war ceases to be a game, there is a change in Aten's tone. The retreat becomes a vastly sobering experience: "the refugee trains inched and shuttled and rocketed by. We sat warm and cozy and full of hot buttered rum--and ashamed." Aten's war does not sound like cowboys and Indians any more. The second part of the book is infinitely better than the first--had each section been written immediately after the events it describes transpired, the change in style would add to an impression that Aten aged a great deal...