Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gossip has always been one of the evil pleasures. It is unworthy, nosy, hypocritical and moralistic, a sort of participatory nastiness. But does it play a heroic moral role hitherto unnoticed? Is gossip merely a swamp that breeds mosquitoes and disease? ("Each man walks with his head in a cloud of poisonous flies," wrote Tennyson.) Or does it have higher functions in the ecosystem...
...added: "We are just starting down a road ... out of the economic swamp." But as a call to a crusade, it was less than inspiring...
SOUTHERN COMFORT Directed by Walter Hill Screenplay by Michael Kane Walter Hill and David Giler Hip deep in a Louisiana swamp, the squad of National Guardsmen gets befuddled. According to the map, there shouldn't be a lake around here. But there is, and unless they steal some boats to cross it, they will not reach their objective in time. This they do, which riles the crafts' Cajun owners, whose tempers are not improved when the weekend soldiers fire blanks at them. Indeed, that is all it takes to turn a war game into a deadly game...
These flaws diminish but do not destroy the significance of American Patriots and the Rituals of Revolution. Writing with confidence, though without much flair. Shaw wades into a murky swamp of history, psychology and anthropology and emerges with a readable and important book. Perhaps no decision in American history has ever come with more difficulty and anxiety than the choice of whether or not to become a nation: the wars within the minds of the patriots may have been as flerce as the later battles with the British. Shaw traces the sources of that choice and recognizes...
...other Congressman in history, and who as chairman of the House Armed Services Committee for 14 years played a major role in the expansion of U.S. military power; of heart disease; in Milledgeville, Ga. A former county judge and Georgia legislator, Vinson became known in the House as the "Swamp Fox" for his mastery of parliamentary procedure and his knack for obtaining the passage of key military legislation. When mentioned as a possible choice for Secretary of Defense in 1950, he said, "Shucks, I'd rather go on running the Pentagon from up here." In March 1980 he became...