Word: things
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pentagon developed especially for Viet Nam-hallucinatory, menacing, full of anxiety, death and a stunning, offhanded sort of accuracy. Herr is a writer with the talent of a smart bomb. Like James Webb in his fairly straightforward 1978 novel Fields of Fire, Herr is able to locate the thing inside the soldiers, and himself, that enjoys the appalling charm of war. Writes Herr: "But somewhere all the mythic tricks intersected, from the lowest John Wayne wet dream to the most aggravated soldier-poet fantasy, and where they did I believe that everyone knew everything about everyone else, every...
...Bunting expects that "within the next three or five years, there will be a major, successful Catch-22-stylG novel and film about Viet Nam. Only then will we be far enough away so as to see behind the grotesque and see how miserably and squalidly funny the whole thing...
...targets, and an eight-hour artillery barrage lit the skyline with almost continuous flashes. Next day the invading force was greeted by jubilant Kampalans who danced in the streets and tossed flowers at the advancing tanks. Accompanying the Tanzanians was TIME'S Tony Avirgan, who observed: "The whole thing took on the air of a victory parade, but at times the revelry got in the way of the soldiers who were trying to disperse pockets of remaining resistance. Every time there was fighting ahead, a Tanzanian colonel would run in front of his troops, and a bugle would sound...
ADELMAN: There is not a damn thing we can do. We have no carrots and no sticks. The President should publicly admit that we are in the hands of a group of people, the OPEC cartel, who are at the moment wholly beyond our control...
There is something else Weir wants to say-that in society, a sense of order is a very fragile thing. If people do not allow for the inexplicable, then they will collapse of shock when chance makes its inevitable appearance. That is what happens to Mrs. Appleyard, the school's headmistress (Rachel Roberts), and to the little academic world she has created, when the full import of the picnic strikes her. The suicide of a girl who had a crush on one of the victims is the final blow...