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...sandstorm with 14 men aboard. Two are dead on impact. More will die during the bitter struggle for survival that celebrates, once again, the indomitability of the human spirit. But Phoenix regards its heroes with refreshing cynicism. In his best role of recent years, James Stewart plays the stubborn, not-very-bright bush pilot, a "back number" who demonstrates leadership by guarding the water rations. "Little men with slide rules and computers are going to inherit the earth," he grumbles. His adversary is a German, Hardy Kruger, a small humorless cipher whose knowledge of aerodynamics puts everyone's fate...
...peace campaign that included airdrops of millions of leaflets and safe-conduct passes for Viet Cong defectors, and endless broadcasts of heart-rending ballads ("Oh, what dreams are you making, dreaming of the success of the vicious Communists?"). But Hanoi seemed as deeply committed as ever to its stubborn, bloody gamble for South Viet...
Henry David Thoreau has been buried in Concord, Mass. for a century. The stubborn, contradictory spirit laid to rest there did not loom large over his own times. He was considered an eccentric loafer, a consecrated crank with queer ideas. Since then Thoreau's ideas have had their seasons. In this excellent biography by a Thoreau scholar who has written and edited 18 earlier books on his chosen subject, Walter Harding argues that Thoreau's spirit is more pervasive now than ever before...
...Western Europe before sending him to the University of St. Petersburg and offered young Osip a safe future in the leather business. But Osip opted for the dangerous life of letters, and his father cut him off without a ruble. Nothing daunted, Osip moved in with the Acmeists, a stubborn little literary sect centered in St. Petersburg and set up in opposition to the symbolists, who at that time dominated Russian poetry. In fact, Mandelstam's esthetic ideal was Athenian, and like the temples of the Golden Age, his poems were constructed with stately simplicity and monumental strength. Says...
...dance girls, both named Maria, touring the fleshpots of a mythical Central American republic in 1907. Enhancing a collection of dazzling period costumes, they inspire lust-and frequently satisfy it-from stop to stop. They invent the striptease, seizing with girlish delight upon a gaping seam and a stubborn snap as though the benefits to mankind might rival the discovery of radium. Finally, they fall jointly in love with a doomed revolutionary (George Hamilton) and continue to inflame the peasantry in his name. As Maria I, Moreau drolly helps the cause by improvising bits of the funeral oration from Julius...