Word: soldier-poet
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...accuracy. Herr is a writer with the talent of a smart bomb. Like James Webb in his fairly straightforward 1978 novel Fields of Fire, Herr is able to locate the thing inside the soldiers, and himself, that enjoys the appalling charm of war. Writes Herr: "But somewhere all the mythic tricks intersected, from the lowest John Wayne wet dream to the most aggravated soldier-poet fantasy, and where they did I believe that everyone knew everything about everyone else, every one of us there a true volunteer. Not that you didn't hear some overripe bullshit about it: Hearts...
...Will and Creation." Fiat, whose name Soldier-Poet Gabriele D'Annunzio once defined as the "word of will and creation," is a vertical trust which, through a holding company named I.F.I, (for Istituto Finanziario Italiano), controls a good cross section of Italy's economy. Among its holdings are insurance, busses, airlines, hotels, and cement, paint and steel plants. Abroad, in six countries from Sweden to India, Fiat plants turn out goods sold in 80 countries...
First Lieut. Christopher Kilmer, 27-year-old son of the late Soldier-Poet Joyce Kilmer (Trees), and a veteran of the Pacific and Italy, turned up on the Alsace front, some 200 miles from the 'Marne battleground where his father was killed in World War I. He admitted that he too had tried his hand at poetry. Sample...
Some Americans will unquestionably get drunk. Some, like Soldier-Poet Robert Graves at the end of World War I, may go walking by themselves, "cursing and sobbing and thinking of the dead." For those who observe the surrenders of Germany and Japan by going to church, the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America last week published "A Service of Worship for Use by the Churches...
Anne Mary Kilmer, four-year-old granddaughter of Soldier-Poet Joyce (Trees), daughter of Kenton, Washington librarian, managed to crack a bottle of champagne across the bow of the Liberty ship Joyce Kilmer in Baltimore...