Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even after the day arrives when "the last American soldier will have stacked arms in Viet Nam" and "the last sortie will have been flown," as Johnson put it, Washington does not foresee a day when the U.S. will turn its back on Asia. "We have learned that the destiny of the U.S. is?once and for all?bound up with the fate of the peoples of Asia and the Pacific," the President said in Hawaii last month. He assumes that peace, if it comes, will not dissolve those bonds but secure them in more mutually beneficial ways. Nor will...
Marshmallow Bogs. Eminent Victorians was a light at the end of a tunnel for its author too. The eleventh of 13 children of a Victorian soldier-scientist, Lytton Strachey grew up as the most squirrelly member of a pandemoniously eccentric household. The grotesque English public school system did little for him except inspire the literary decapitation, in Eminent Victorians, of Dr. Thomas Arnold, the spartan Christian of Rugby. By the time Lytton reached Cambridge in 1899, he was a distinct oddity-a gangly, shrill-voiced, germ-ridden, manic-depressive esthete, caustic as lye except when caught in the eternally adolescent...
...played by Vyacheslav Tikhonov) and his friend Pierre Bezukhov (played by Director Bondarchuk), who represent the two faces of the aristocracy. The outlines of the plot are familiar even to those nonreaders who saw the 1956 miniversion, with Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer, and Henry Fonda. Andrei, a sophisticate and soldier, is unable to alter his archaic sensibilities and perishes in the war. Pierre, muddling through the chaos around him, does nothing right, but because he has the capacity to grow and change, he survives. Between the two flutters the lissome Natasha (Ludmila Savelyeva) as she grows from spritely adolescence...
...under Brother Roy Disney, continue to spread the name.* On a more disturbing level, however, it is difficult to accept the fact of Disney's death because it was difficult to accept the facts of his life. Even his surname, said to have been traced to a Burgundian soldier named De Disney who followed William the Conqueror to England in 1066, seems a fanciful invention. To his family, Disney was a genius to be pampered; to his business associates, he was the boss to be yessed. His meticulously cultivated public image remains that of the sort of magician often...
This language is the medium through which Grace Paley builds personality. It provides a salty, descriptive surface for otherwise callow characters such as the novice nymphet in bed with a soldier in A Woman, Young and Old, or the gay but rusting blade of The Contest who thinks he can do without marriage. For the book's best and most typical characters-spunky, passionate women, abandoned by men and saddled with children and poverty-life is a form of coping with the mysteries of love and loneliness...