Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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True enough, say the military, the number of battalion-and brigade-size sweeps against the enemy has not increased since the peace talks started. But they insist with pride that overall pressure on the Communists has increased-in the form of many more smaller-scale actions. Abrams has found that forays by sub-battalion-size units -companies, platoons, even squads -can be mounted more quickly, more often and in more places. Such surprise sweeps also achieve better results. Thus the general's sting-ray tactics, designed to interdict the movement of North Vietnamese units and supplies, involve the same...
...presented by the battle for Hamburger Hill: a costly fight for a piece of real estate that was to be abandoned before the blood had hardly dried on it. There are U.S. officers who will privately admit that, given hindsight, Ap Bia should have been handled differently. Perhaps, they say, the 101st moved up too close before ascertaining how many Communists were dug in atop the mountain. Perhaps the peak should have been more thoroughly blasted by air and artillery bombardment before the soldiers assaulted it. But, says one officer, "in nine out of ten operations, quick reaction and recharge...
...Perhaps the most dramatic evidence in the entire poll on how rapidly American morality is changing," says the survey, "is the rise-and the admission of that rise-in what would surely have been considered highly serious moral infractions only a short time ago." The number of people who say that they know someone who commits adultery has risen from 24% to 36% since 1964; 15% now-v. 10% then-virtually admit to instances of adultery in their own family. In other areas, 13% know someone whose child uses marijuana, 59% know someone who drinks too much, 22% know someone...
...substantial minorities of Americans admit to committing either illegal or immoral acts, many of which they tend to take for granted. For instance, 30% nationwide admit to having cheated on an examination; 19% admit to having taken advantage of a cashier's error (32% of the young); 16% say that they have taken an employer's supplies or equipment without his permission; 13% have ignored parking tickets (20% of the college-educated); 12% have walked out of a store with something they didn't pay for (23% of the young); and 10% have failed to return borrowed...
...visual cues and staging of live opera. The instrumental music also has to describe narrative movement and background, since the vocal part is simply a single voice which defines a stage in the maturing of its sensibility in each of eight arias. "The Moth Confesses is a condensed opera, "say the jacket notes, "with variations on a single literary theme: desperation...