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...Union side is perhaps more unattractively vivid. Fort Pillow's second-ranking officer is Major Will Bradford, who before the war was a Northern sympathizer in plantation climes. A sleazy, ambitious, jake-leg lawyer, he had run unsuccessfully for the state legislature and vainly courted Good Old Southern Family belles. With secession, he joined the Union army. Knowing clearly enough that no matter who wins the war he will be forced to leave his homeland hills in the end, Bradford lives "in a dry bitterness...
...many reasons. The Left embraces the idea, lends its advice and some leadership, and builds up every application of it into evidence that the revolution might really yet come. The New Right takes it as a target to energize its support. TV and the press find it colorful and vivid material. As a result, it gains attention far beyond its actual significance...
...keep ourselves away from the Vietnam war as much as possible; another is to commit more of our resources to the building up of the economic prosperity of Southeast Asia. We will never take the leadership position on this. The bitter memory of the Japanese occupation is still too vivid in the memories of the Asian nations to permit such a turn of events...
...whole system is subverted when the press fills jurors' heads with inadmissible evidence-prior criminal records, rumored confessions, "flunked" lie-detector tests, a police chief's claim that "we got the right man." Some prosecutors announce indictments with unforgettable declarations of guilt. Defense lawyers then counter with vivid rebuttals-all of which may be read by prospective jurors...
...this stage, the war calls less for bloodletting than for form filling. There are no battles but plenty of bumf-British army term for paperwork. Powell's people move through "the backwoods of this bureaucratic jungle," and it is a novelistic miracle that he keeps their old characters vivid and alive while they are being bored to death. If not bored, embarrassed. "Embarrassed" rather than "afraid" is the word one character finds for his feeling when his bathroom is bombed...