Word: subalterns
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...Sacrilege! Infamy! Libel!" I slashed the teacup to the floor. "Good grief, Holmes! Even during those lonely days in Afghanistan, I never so much as glanced at a subaltern...
...Overhaul. Last week, as they took command of the barnacled party machinery, Humphrey and O'Brien moved quickly to discard some of the Pedernales Mafia. John Criswell, an L.B.J. subaltern who antagonized many delegates with the stringent security rules he imposed as manager of the Chicago convention, resigned as treasurer of the National Committee, along with 16 other members. The 72-member committee staff will be more than doubled, with most of the new workers coming from the Vice President's campaign staff...
...notably, a court-martial scene in the desert that rivals the Red Queen's interrogation of Alice for sheer illogic. In a generally first-rate cast, Jack MacGowran is outstanding as a mad soldier who could have stepped from the plays of Beckett, while Crawford, as the silly subaltern, alternates hilariously between villainy and vanity. Despite its pictorial audacity and quirky humor, the picture is less impressive as a film against war than as a war against film-the kind of red-blooded Hollywood spectacular that glorifies battle. Nonetheless, Lester's irrepressible stylistic exuberance adds considerable evidence that...
...service, it is true, more in the irresponsible way of a war correspondent than on the plodding grind of a subaltern with his regiment; but then that is the only way--bar miracles--in which a man can see three campaigns in four years. Having to give the first years of his manhood to war-making, he characteristically gave them in the way that was likely to prove most fruitful of experience for use afterwards...
...especially, where the young are expected not to know better than their elders--or, at least, to keep their knowledge to themselves--his assurance has earned him many snubs. One general will delight in his light-hearted omniscience, the next, and the next, and the next will put a subaltern in his place. But Winston Churchill cannot be snubbed. His self-confidence bobs up irresistibly, though seniority and common sense and facts themselves conspire to force it down...