Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ridge by themselves sat two soldiers, Lieut. Colonel Yair and his driver. "He took this place back in October," a soldier explained of the colonel. "He can't get used to leaving. Too many of his men fell here." Yair himself recalled that it had taken three days and nights to gain the hill. "A lot of blood was spilled here. But if we have to give it back, we have to give it back." He remained seated, staring out over the bleak landscape...
...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Le Carre...
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is one of the best tales of the year so far. But by le Carré's highest standards it is, as Evelyn Waugh remarked in another connection, simply "creamy English charm playing tigers...
FICTION 1- Watership Down, Adams (1 last week) 2-Jaws, Benchley (2) 3-The Fan Club, Wallace (3) 4-The Snare of the Hunter, MacInnes (4) 5-Cashelmara, Howatch (5) 6-Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Le Carré 7-Burr, Vidal (6) 8-The Other Side of Midnight, Sheldon (7) 9-You and Me, Babe, Barris (8) 10-The Partners, Auchincloss...
...responsibility of power is no less an obsession with Shakespeare than with today's investigators. In his plays chaos always ensues when violence is done to a leader, but Shakespeare also sensed the perils of unquestioning obedience. Says a soldier in Henry V: "If his cause be wrong, our obedience to the King wipes the crime of it out of us." But his compatriot is not so sure: "if the cause be not good, the King himself hath a heavy reckoning to make when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in a battle, shall join together...