Word: waked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FINNEGANS WAKE. A surprising number of James Joyce's Eire-borne visions survive in the screenwriter's version of the screedwriter's novel, thanks to Director Mary Ellen Bute's audacious dream sequences and witty collages and montages...
...hope so, too." The three salvos were in fact salutations from the Viet Cong, whose mortarmen thus welcomed the U.S. Vice President to Viet Nam and attempted to turn last week's inaugural reception for President Nguyen Van Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky into a wake. Fired from the roof of a shack in downtown Sai gon, the shells hit in the palace garden, precisely where Humphrey, Thieu, Ky, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and General William C. Westmoreland would have been standing had rain not forced the party indoors...
...intense feeling for country, outrage at the shedding of American blood, a sense of common danger, resolve to defeat the enemy. A people that had been divided hours before was mobilized by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; millions shifted from self-interest to self-sacrifice. In the wake of World War II cams a subtle and complex act of patriotism, the Marshall Plan, embodying not only the best of American ideals but also the wisest of American self-interest. In its wake also came a minority phenomenon that has recurred in the U.S. and other nations throughout history: superpatriotism...
Morison winds up rather too stoutly defending the man he cannot quite love -or quite bring to life. To this extent, the biography is a failure, but a failure that scatters in its wake some fascinat ing little gems from Morison's booty chest of Americana. Where else would the recipe for Rhode Island jonny cake appear in a footnote...
...Orleans belongs to no one. It is not really a Southern town, though a civil rights activist may well expect to wake up some night to the sound of a bomb tearing up his home. I is not a Northern town, though hippies in purple cloaks may cluster around the statue of Andrew Jackson in the middle of busy Jackson Square. Though that statue bears an inscription which reads, "The Union must be preserved"--an inscription which has to strike a Southern ear with painful irony--it is not a Northern town. It is not an All-American town, though...