Word: war
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jenkins' position as liaison officer with various Allied military missions gives Powell a chance to extend his insular comic powers to foreign fields. It also allows a sidelong glance at some of the larger tragic ironies of World War II. With remarkable feeling, Powell conveys the consternation of those concerned with Anglo-Soviet relations when chilling evidence comes in that the Russians have massacred 10,000 Polish officer-prisoners in the Katyn Forest...
...pleasures of any roman-fleuve lies in keeping track of the pasts and permutations of vast numbers of characters. One way and another, the war introduces and eradicates many of Powell's figurants. The ditching of the Yugoslav Chetnik Leader Mihailovich in favor of Tito costs the life of Peter Templer, one of Jenkins' oldest friends (and a veteran of novel No. 1, A Question of Upbringing), who fought with the wrong partisans. The Malayan debacle takes another of Powell's veteran characters, Charles Stringham, P.O.W. and presumed dead. The officer indirectly responsible for the orders that...
...repudiates him unequivocally as if Collins was some kind of different rebel fighting a different war. Ronald Janis moans about how Collins will upset the applicant and bring down repression on our heads. Surprise, surprise! In California, college radicals have their phones tapped and play dangerous games with plainclothes cops on campus. At Harvard we had Paine Hall and bursars cards. The CRIMSON editorializes about the sacrosanctity of Harvard education, as Soc Rel 149 is being attacked prelude to phasing out, despite its huge enrollment. So Collins gets two years on a phony dope rap. Two years...
...clearest expression so far of the alienation of administration from student body. There's clearly a gap somewhere in this best-of-all-possible academic communities when the president talks about "a long, friendly, happy experience" with ROTC while students are concerned with the immediacy of the Vietnamese War...
Peace--A satire on war taken from the Aristophanes play. Funny and with a nice score by a very different theatrical song writer, Al Carmines. At the ASTOR PLACE THEATRE, 434 Lafayette...