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What How I Won The War proves is that a serious anti-war movie cannot be told in the same cacciatore style that works so well with the Beatles or Zero Mostel in a toga. Of the welter of punches Lester aims at his broad target, only a few can land with appreciable force. The rest necessarily have to deflect off each other, mutually weakening themselves. When John Lennon, in his non-Beatle debut, dies, he dies in a realistic ugly field with realistic blood spewing from his abdomen. But he doesn't just die realistically. He sits there, observes...
...highways and byways of the U.S. may be sporting a profusion of new color. That, at least, is the recommendation of the National Joint Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, an organization dedicated to doing something about the welter of traffic signs dotting the nation's 3,700,000 miles of roadways. They found that the multitude of hard-to-read signs has become a major cause of traffic accidents, confounding many motorists into panicking, abruptly switching lanes or coming to sudden halts. Says Committee Vice Chairman Charles W. Prisk...
This attitude results primarily from the peculiar position of the Music Department in relation to the welter of musical activity in the College. In spite of the fact that the conductors of the big musical organizations have positions on its faculty -- and of the two or three professional recitals spon sored throughout the year, or the occasional venture as impresario made by its Pulitzer prize-winning composer-conductor, Leon Kirchner--the Music Department has earned the reputation of being "anti-performance." This may or may not be true of individual members of the department, but it is justified...
...appearance is true to his reputation as a brawler. Short, thick-chested, with a graying mass of Brillo for hair, he looks like an aging welter-weight. He throws sentences like punches, clipped, hard, sometimes below the belt--not surprising for a writer who churned out 20,000 words about a one-round Liston-Patterson fight and who has himself gone ten rounds with Jose Torres. Yet when others use boxing metaphors, he winces, demanding a better performance; the image, he implies, is his own thing, and indeed, when he cups his hands, leans forward, and drops one like "Maybe...