Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unflinching sense of independence. Admired by friends, loathed by enemies, he is cursed by his grotesquely protuberant nose. Because of his ugliness, he cannot confess his deepest secret-a passionate love for his cousin Roxana. But when the heroine falls in love with an Adonean but doltish young soldier, Cyrano offers to help him by writing the love-letters whose beauty win Roxana's heart. Christian, the beautiful youth, seeks triumph of the flesh; Cyrano, the poet, seeks glorification of the spirit...
...four suits probably had origins in divination, as a reference to the four quarters of the world. But the four-suit deck is largely a Western convention: there are round Hindu cards with ten suits representing the ten incarnations of Vishnu, and some Persian decks had five-dancer, queen, soldier, king and lion (see opposite page, top left). In the classical fortuneteller's deck, the tarot, the suits were four: cups, swords, coins and batons. Each suit had 14 cards, with four court cards that included a knight. To this pack of 56 were added a further 22 divinatory...
...Harris (5) ¶6-All Creatures Great and Small, Herriot (7) ¶7-' 'Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye, O'Donnell, Powers, McCarthy (8) ¶8-Journey to Ixtlan, Castaneda (6) ¶9-The Implosion Conspiracy, Nizer ¶10-Soldier, Lieut. Colonel Anthony B. Herbert, U.S.A. (ret.) with James T. Wooten...
...book review of Anthony Herbert's Soldier published on Saturday the 3rd, I found even more incredible than the Friday report...
...Reinhardt and Winston, the publishers, seem to want to help sales a little. Another subsidiary of their owners, CBS, is the television show Sixty Minutes. February 3, they spent 30 of those 60 minutes trying to undermine Herbert's credibility by bringing forth witnesses to deny certain events in Soldier, events irrelevant to the war-crime issue. Time magazine had gone to press the day before, but they wrote up the show, and labelled Herbert's book 'controversial.' Controversy sells books, and four days later, Soldier makes The New York Times best seller list...