Word: valetta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roundhead. Yet Burgess's prose never seems plodding despite his spiritual preoccupations. In any case, he is the kind of man who could write a light review of a heavy British Treasury tax form. Should he do so in the future, it will have to be written from Valetta. Anthony Burgess has transplanted himself from tax-heavy Britain to Malta. This move is part of what the British deplore as the Brain Drain. Where Burgess is concerned, both the brain and the drain are considerable...
Battlefield Privacy. Some viewers complain of a credibility gap. Explains Mrs. Valetta Wheeler of Detroit, who has two brothers in Viet Nam: "What they say on TV and what my brothers say in their letters is not the same." Others, like Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, bemoan TV's "one-sided" war coverage in which the camera focuses almost exclusively on U.S. troops. American viewers, of course, never see the North Vietnamese or Viet Cong in battle, let alone committing brutalities. Indeed, when the Communists do release films to Western TV, they invariably show little more than heroic civilians...