Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Following its tough line all the way, the city prohibited the Coalition for an Open Convention, the relatively tame stop-Humphrey group, from holding a rally at Soldier Field. It also refused to give the yippies permission to camp in Lincoln Park, and told demonstrators that they could march nowhere near the amphitheatre itself. Appeals of the bans were rejected by Federal District Judge William Lynch-Mayor Daley's former law partner...
BRING LARKS AND HEROES, by Thomas Keneally. A mythic tale of an Irish soldier in the garrison of a penal colony vividly evokes the brutality, courage and grace of 18th century Australia...
...conserve power and protect against an air attack, though that is certainly improbable. Military roadblocks and the spot checking of cars for smuggled ammunition create massive traffic tie-ups; and on walls throughout the city, government posters depict Ojukwu's demonic countenance being crushed by the boot of a soldier. Otherwise, life in Lagos maintains its prewar rhythms. On Saturday evenings, the Gondola and Cabin Bamboo dance halls still swing, and weekend picnickers jam the gleaming bay-front beaches, splashing in the surf and munching smoked stockfish...
Thomas Keneally, 32, is an Australian with a pronounced Irish accent. He has found the mythic frame for his novel in the love, rebellion and death of an Irish soldier in the garrison of a penal colony that might have been Sydney, but was historically Port Jackson, 200 years ago. Young Halloran is a corporal and Roman Catholic who has sworn his conscript's oath to the English and Protestant King, George III. He was once destined for the priesthood, and has a Latinate and God-bedazzled turn of mind. Now he guards felons, argues theology with...
Like the prostitute with the heart of gold, the soldier who quakes at the sight of senseless human misery (see the Green Berets) is becoming a well-known cliche, but McGuire slides into the type, probably not as a sham. He is more a soldier of fortune than soldier, however, for he says he never carried a gun, even for personal protection in Biafra. ("I figured we had enough guns and ammo on the plane already.") He left Biafra at the end of July, after his mother died in the United States and his close call made him suspicious...