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...losing a breast to cancer any more "tragic" than losing a spleen. It is a lot less tragic than losing a limb or vital organ...
Hillenbrand, who was not badly hurt, was far more fortunate than CBS Newsman Haney Howell who, while covering the same demonstration an hour later, was knocked to the ground and kicked by several policemen; he was hospitalized with painful bruises about his spleen. CBS protested directly to President Thieu, noting that the attack did violence to the already fragile image of democracy hi his country. To Hillenbrand, the ugly episode was a telling sign of political jitters hi Saigon. As always, he says, "when the going gets tough for the government, the secret police begin beating on the journalists...
...cannot see the ashes of their fallen kin imagine the departed souls "aimlessly wandering and wailing for help." Explains one war widow who joined a senseki jumpai: "One night I dreamed a dream in which my husband stood in the corner of my room. He was full of spleen and said that even though he had committed suicide in a cave deep in a jungle, nobody had come...
Solzhenitsyn does not live and write in order to vent his personal spleen against the Communist regime. "The Gulag Archipelago" was written to remind us that the concentration camps still exist and that millions continue to die in them, and to remind the U.S. of its criminal stupidity and moral fecklessness in failing to combat Soviet oppression of its people. Although Solzhenitsyn himself may now be safe, the Soviet dictatorship still remains...
...ring and avenge the death of a squad member. Director Philip d'Antoni, who produced Bullitt and The French Connection, has cut The Seven-Ups to pattern. The chase scene measures up just fine against its predecessors, and may go them a little better in the department of spleen-shattering spectacle. But perhaps there did not have to be one in the first place. Similarly, a better locale might have been selected for the final shootout, one that did not duplicate the seedy denouement of The French Connection quite so closely...