Word: waked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fancy Feints. The week's events showed that his strong right hand, at least, was having some effect. In the wake of the U.S. Marines' victory over four veteran Viet Cong battalions at Chu Lai, the guerrillas were lying low; in fact, they have initiated no action above battalion-size in eight weeks. North of the 17th parallel, U.S. planes plastered a power plant, rail lines and bridges...
...then resolve to shun all the authors he feels obliged to read. If his conscience impels him toward Marlowe, he should settle for Harlow; if his secret ambition is to get through all of Dumas, he should try a Du Maurier. For the habitual nonreader to leap into Finnegans Wake or Wittgenstein is almost as unseemly and possibly as dangerous as it is for a middle-aged stockbroker to demonstrate push-ups at a party. By the same token, the would-be title-dropper should stay firmly away from The Golden Bough, the Aeneid, Kierkegaard, The Wealth of Nations, Rousseau...
...wake of an expanded draft call, thousands of Americans are about to encounter a fact of G.I. life that might flabbergast a veteran of World War II. It is the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which permits U.S. military courts to be reviewed by civilian judges. By virtue of the code, the modern U.S. court-martial gives the accused a fairer shake than he can expect in most U.S. state criminal courts...
...portages, the reporters lost much of their cheerfulness. On one portage, when Reporter McBride was rubbing a twisted knee, a Secret Service man passed by, loaded down with packs and sweating profusely. "It's all a dream," the agent muttered. "I know it is. Tomorrow I'll wake up and be in Florida...
...stylishly funny sequence, indebted to Fellini, drums up elegant corruption at a villa where a deaf aristocrat's mistress (Marisa Mell) tries to persuade Mastroianni to kill for her. In pursuit of the lady, he is ferried languidly along a stream, statues and bridges crumbling ominously in his wake...