Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israeli citizen-soldier, who humbled the Arab Goliath and continues to withstand the pressures of a hostile UN, the threats of Russia, the treachery of France, the nagging criticism of Britain and the lukewarm support of the U.S. S. LEVIN Johannesburg, South Africa...
...second half of the program was a definite improvement over the first. Both the works had been played at previous concerts, and performances were generally brighter and more confident. The Wind Ensemble reappeared with Robert Kurka's Suite from The Good Soldier Schweik. This basically tonal work, composed in 1956, treads perilously close to eclecticism as it attempts to combine all the classic styles of twentieth century music: the playful dissonance of Prokofieff, the biting sarcasm of Mahler, a Milhaud-like use of jazz, and insistent rhythms at once reminiscent of Igor Stravinsky and Leonard Bernstein. Combined with the nearly...
Crouching, dodging and crawling, the Americans returned up the slope to link with the shattered company coming down. They made it only because one soldier, wounded in both legs and disobeying orders to retreat, propped himself and his machine gun up in the middle of the trail. He held the Communist attackers at bay until his company got away, gunning down an estimated 17 before slumping dead over his smoking barrel. The beleaguered battalion regrouped and called in air strikes. As the jets roared in at 500 feet to blast the top of the hill, one released...
...water. Some of the wounded undoubtedly died as a result, and because they could not be helilifted out to proper medical treatment. The dead were piled six high and hastily covered with ponchos, arms and legs protruding from the grim mass. So tight was the U.S. perimeter that one soldier had to move bodies to dig himself a trench to sleep in, and another used two fallen buddies to keep himself warm during the bitter cold highlands night...
...Ransom and his companion wandered from one part of the building to another, and stayed their steps at several impressive points; but they lingered longest in the presence of the white, ranged tablets, each of which, in its proud, sad clearness, is inscribed with the name of a student soldier...