Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week conveyed a far different moral lesson: how easily America as a nation has come to accept public hypocrisy. With his uninflected answers and his stolid manner, his face puffy from strain and fatigue, McFarlane radiated the melancholy of moral responsibility. All his enemies were within, as a good soldier tried to square his own misguided conduct with internal standards of honor and integrity. In the depths of his soul, McFarlane had been tested and found wanting, and it was that shame he could not help conveying...
Chris Starkmann went to Viet Nam as innocent as the narrator of Platoon. In this powerful novel, the veteran bitterly recalls the death wish of Ulysses: "Would God I, too, had died there . . . I should have had a soldier's burial and praise." Instead, the madness acquired 14 years earlier has been carried home, slowly eroding his marriage, his job and his life. A soldier is most vulnerable when he feels safest, he drunkenly repeats, and in the rough country of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where people have "no possibilities, no place to go," Chris comes to believe...
...books uponwhich his reputation as a political scientist isbased), and its reception in the 1970s, he states:"Some indications of this trend in the directionof a more conservative realism compatible with theprofessional military outlook were brieflysketched in the final chapter of The Soldierand the State. Indeed, the publication ofThe Soldier and the State, with itsunabashed defense of the professional militaryethic and rejection of traditional liberalism, wasitself evidence of the changing intellectualclimate." A scientist does not give an "unabasheddefense" of the object of his study...
Vasilii Vereshchagi, an independent painter,depicted scenes from his travels as well as imagesof battles and bloodshed that had haunted Russiaafter the disastrous and bloody Crimean War. Thespontenaity of his "Mortally Wounded" (1873) showsmodern war's horrors: sketched in broadbrushstrokes, the lone soldier lunges toward us,clutching his wound instead of his gun which liesforgotten on the ground behind...
...NOTEBOOK: Prior, Harvard's leading hitter, went 2-for-4 from the plate in the second contest with a pair of singles...Harvard will host Boston College tomorrow at Soldier's Field...last season the Crimson lost two heartbreakers, 3-2, 2-1, to the Eagles...Faces in the crowd: outgoing women's basketball assistant Coach Beth Wheatley Doran with Coach Kathy Delaney Smith's infant...