Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Beowulf epic has once again risen from its grave; but even the Christians knew better than to resurrect the dead more than once. Still not content, Gardner spices his novel with allusions to Arthurian legend. And to all this he adds his own version of that classic Faulknerian tale of the decay of the proud and respected Compson family. It is all done in the same battered, albeit rigid, multi-consciousness point of view...
Soldier is the fascinating tale of Herbert's fall from grace. In a larger sense, it is also a study of the Army in decline. At times, because it carries the entire weight of Herbert's obviously one-sided case against his superiors, the account seems self-righteous. Indeed, the Army has done its best to discredit Herbert, accusing him of creating "fiction," insubordination and poor leadership. But whatever weaknesses Herbert's case against his two immediate superior officers may contain, the evidence he presents against the Army's conduct as such is overwhelming, triangulated...
Herbert may have retired from the Army, but not from battle. Soldier is simply a salvo in a continuing campaign to clear his own name and work revenge upon the Army. Like the Ancient Mariner, he drifts from lecture hall to talk show, telling his ghastly tale. In a recent appearance on the Dick Cavett Show with Senator Barry Goldwater, Herbert dropped yet another bomb. He declared he had in his possession a whole series of memos (some signed by Generals Westmoreland and Sidle and Army Secretary Froehlke) that vowed to discredit and punish him. Goldwater, a member...
Every once in a while the fairy-tale world of Harvard sports approaches reality. Such was the case this week as Eric "End-Zone" Crone learned that he had been drafted in the last round by the St. Louis Cardinals as a possible professional running back, and two Harvard athletes, Dave Hynes and Dragan Vujovic, left the University for different personal reasons...
SATURDAY: Beauty and the Beast. Poet Jean Cocteau directed this adult fairy-tale in France soon after the Nazis evacuated. Lyrical escapism. CH. 2. 8 p.m. Color...