Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ordinary Soldier. Like most young radicals, Kunen does not try to offer any systematic solutions; he just wants people to be good to each other. "We're all together in this thing, so we could say all right, we're all kind of weak and bad but we're going to do the best we can and try to muddle through together because there's nowhere to go and there's nothing else to be. That way everyone could be fairly happy because no one would hate anybody. But man, talk about unrealistic Utopian impossibilities...
Only in one brief sketch does the movie suggest the bitter suite of insights that might have been. An ex-infantryman walks the Bastogne town square, explaining to a girl friend the Allied side of the Battle of the Bulge. As he stomps along, he passes a German ex-soldier who volubly outlines the battle to his wife. Booming away, the men pass like bateaux mouches gliding over an ancient shipwreck...
Winning an overwhelming 15 to 18 events, the varsity track team rolled to a surprisingly easy 111-43 victory over Princeton Saturday at Soldier's Field. The triumph raised Harvard's outdoor record to 4-0 in dual meets, with only the May 17 Yale meet separating the Crimson from a perfect season...
...interest in the Augustinians did not last long. Discipline interfered with his dedication to scholarship, and he eventually was dispensed from monastic rules. His central concern, apart from classical learning, was the true meaning of the Christian life. A follower of Christ, Erasmus thought, ought to be a spiritual soldier-a theme he explored in one of his first popular books, a volume that he dedicated hopefully to a sybaritic armaments manufacturer. His Enchiridion Militis Christian! (The Handbook, or "Dagger," of the Christian Soldier) failed to convert the man to a more virtuous life, but it did become a stimulus...
Insistence on that point is not new for Cheever. He has always been something of a Christian soldier in mufti, a man more kin to John Bunyan than to John Updike. Cheever's formula for circumventing disorder and the Devil has never strayed far from the New England legacy of his first full-length character, old Leander Wapshot. "Bathe in cold water every morning," Leander counseled his sons. "Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the Lord." Yet literary means, like wars and prices, tend to escalate. In Bullet Park, trying to cope with up-to-date...