Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cretinous. The blurbs from other writers are often elliptical and overblown ("Not since Dostoevsky . . ."), demolishing what credibility they might normally possess. The authors' capsule biographies still tend to suggest that to become a novelist, a boy should first try life as a carpenter, cook, salesman and merchant seaman. Advertising budgets range from minuscule to nonexistent. Many publishers, in fact, will not advertise a first novel at all unless sales justify it on a percentage basis-a neat way to ensure there will be no sales to base percentages...
Named for an oriental word that is chanted during meditation, the antiwar newsletter OM induced unusual meditation among the military brass soon after it appeared 13 months ago. It was written for servicemen by a member of the armed forces, 26-year-old Seaman Apprentice Roger Priest. When Priest sent a " copy with a taunting note to L. Mendel Rivers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Rivers boiled off a note of his own to the Pentagon asking whether Priest had committed a "gross abuse of the constitutional right of free speech." Soon the seaman was ordered before...
...instructed the trial board that "criticism of Government policy may not be considered in and of itself disloyal" and the panel acquitted Priest of soliciting desertion and sedition. But the five officers found him guilty of "promoting disloyalty and disaffection." They ordered him demoted to the lowest naval rank, seaman recruit, and given a bad-conduct discharge...
...granite-faced seaman sits waiting in a saloon. The voice behind him is soft and beckoning. He rises and holds the pregnant girl in his arms. The beaming, reunited couple could be lovers -but they are father and daughter. By the time her common-law husband joins the pair, it is clear that riverrun becomes Electra...
Meanwhile, the judicial proceedings are grinding on. Medina and Willingham will report to Fort McPherson, Ga. All of the others accused have been ordered to Fort Meade, Md., where First Army Commander Lieut. General Jonathan Seaman will direct formal investigations that may or may not lead to courts-martial...