Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hanoi's current tactics are tied significantly to the U.S. presidential elections. "The U.S. assumption that the North Vietnamese leaders are worrying primarily about whether to deal with Nixon or wait for the outcome of the election seems chauvinistic from here," reports TIME's Saigon Bureau Chief Stanley Cloud. "It misses the point that the North Vietnamese military position in the South is vastly better than it was a year ago and is virtually unchallenged in Laos and Cambodia...
Like its savage anti-hero Alex, A Clockwork Orange will soon be subjected to a tiny taste of the Ludovico Technique-that brain-blowing treatment that was to rid Alex of his sado-sexual violence. At the end of next month the Stanley Kubrick film will be temporarily withdrawn from theaters to allow the censors' scissors to transform it from an X- to an R-rated movie (children under 17 admitted with parent or guardian). After 60 days Clockwork will emerge from the Motion Picture Association of America's purification rite shorn of its scarlet letter...
...LING by STANLEY H. BROWN 308 pages. Atheneum...
That story is already legendary. But Stanley Brown, a former FORTUNE writer, retells it knowingly and with absorbing elaborations. His book is also a good document of business excesses in those heady years, when the market was climbing to the skies and everybody was dazzled by entrepreneurs with "vision...
...enthusiastic and perceptive introduction to the book, Stanley Kunitz properly recommends that the poems be read through all in a single sitting. The growth of Casey's insights, one upon the other, the recurring juxtaposition of human comedy and absurdist tragedy, and the escalating force of Casey's convincing verse can best be appreciated when he work is taken in as a whole. Amidst what would seem to be his verbatim transcription of his portion of the war, the poet's moments of reflection are neither disruptive nor pompous, but as frugal, honest and ironic as his descriptive poetry. Somewhat...