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...novel is a tract, written expressly to sell the author's ideas on the role of the army. As a novel, it hardly exists. Although the cover calls it "the sensational bestselling French novel about their paratroops in Indo-China and Algeria," it only describes Indo-China after the defeat at Dien-Bien-Phu, and deals with the Algerian campaign in a curious (and not very exciting) fashion, as though the French army there were Larteguy's model army...
...maneuver is simply to show up the author's romanticized psychology. In point of fact, The Centurions almost emerges as an argument for more and better sexuality. The identification of "real men" with strong sexuality is not silly, but it makes funny reading in what is otherwise a propagandistic tract...
...sale of this particular tract to Harvard would have the opposite effect on revenue, Pusey pointed out in his statement, because as MTA property it is now completely tax-exempt; however, if the land were sold, some of it would be put to taxable...
...avant-garde confidently picked up the directorial baton-and fell flat on his face. Too Late Blues is a routine, B-flat movie musical in which Cassavetes can seriously claim success in only one respect: the picture will not make money. To begin with, it constitutes a tired tract for the hysterical cult of hip that preaches salvation through syncopation. The plot, moreover, is a canned arrangement played to death in a dozen previous pictures of this sort: progressive jazzbo (Bobby Darin) goes commercial; loses art, loses heart, loses girl (Stella Stevens); but in the reprise he straightens...
...Manhattan, the International Business Machines Corp. disclosed plans for shifting its head office about 25 miles north to Armonk in Westchester County. There, on a 443-acre tract, IBM is building a sprawling headquarters that will house 1,000 employees...