Word: wars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hackett knows as well as any of us that any effort to describe an international showdown between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. leading to world war can call to its aid only hypothesis and speculation, not prediction and calculation. Nevertheless, one can ask of our "top-ranking NATO generals and advisers" at least a little understanding of the international power structure they seek to preserve...
...wrong-and they have been both-left-wing intellectuals have never had much luck in America. The Depression seemed ready to trigger enduring class hatred. But radicals were mistaken about the benignity of Joseph Stalin and the possibilities of domestic Marxism. Their revolution was postponed. Then along came World War II, the postwar boom and millions of house-owning, boat-buying, TV-consuming workers, downtrodden all the way to the bank...
Even when things again went badly for capitalism, the left could not capitalize on its opportunities. The anti-Establishment was right about the Viet Nam War; it proved a conflict that could not be won, or lost, with honor. But radical rhetoric kept linking dislike of the war with condemnation of the whole American system. Perspectives were blurred; hard-liners compared the U.S. to Hitler's Germany and listeners turned away. Today, as Jimmy Carter acknowledges the country faces recession, popular distrust of big corporations and the existence of a sizable underclass. And still most Americans can imagine...
...What I write about is not war, but the courage of man," Cornelius Ryan once remarked. In his bestselling World War II trilogy (The Longest Day, The Last Battle, A Bridge Too Far), Ryan, a historian and former wartime correspondent, recounted great battles not through statistics but through narratives of personal sacrifice and drama. In A Private Battle, his last book, Ryan re-creates another kind of war: a four-year fight against cancer. Composed of tapes recorded throughout his illness, along with entries by his wife and co-editor Kathryn, Battle is as much a testimonial to the human...
DIED. Joseph Kessel, 81, globetrotting French journalist and author of some 50 novels; in Avernes, France. Raised in Russia, Kessel flew far-flung missions for the French air force during World War I, experience he later evoked in his war and adventure tales. During World War II, he took a dangerous part in the French Resistance and he wrote lyrics for the movement's anthem, Chant des Partisans. Three of his best-known novels became movies: The Lion, The Horsemen, and Belle de Jour, filmed by Luis...