Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...martial, that of Lieut. William Calley Jr., who is accused of murdering 102 civilians. Beginning in its November issue, Esquire magazine is giving Calley a chance to reflect on his Army experiences with the aid of a professional writer, John Sack. Self-serving though it is, the first-person account is a haunting revelation of one man's uncertain and contradictory reactions to the Viet...
...Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth was scandalized when a rather different American named Thomas Morton decided to show the New World how to celebrate. At Merry Mount, which may have been America's first counterculture community, Morton erected a Maypole-80 feet of priapic pine-and by his own account "brewed a barrel! of excellent beare" to be distributed with "other good cheare, for all commers of that day." Other good cheare included Indian girls, according to "a song fitting to the time and present occasion" written by the host himself...
Dalila, for example, asked Samson in stodgy Elizabethan English "Wherewith if thou wert bound thou couldst not break loose?" Now she says, "Tell me how you may be bound so as to be kept helpless." In the N.A.B.'s New Testament, the account of Paul's trip to Rome (Acts 27) turns out to be a brisk, realistic shipwreck saga. Too many Bible tales, Sloyan says, had become "sublime accounts more befitting gods than...
...operates, though its subscribers are barely making it. Witness the Mole here. But Ray Mungo, who founded the service and wrote his book, Famous Long Ago, about that crazy year, writes from a backwoods Vermont farm, living what he calls the "post-revolutionary life" in the New Age. His account, as the title indicates, is both a history and an autobiography, and it is, as the title also indicates, a story of days gone forever. "We're closing the book on the 1960s," he says, "and good riddance to all that striving after the wind." His book is specifically...
...scholarship to B.U., and turned on to Marx, dope, and sex in his freshman, sophomore and junior years, in that order. In his senior year, he edited the B.U. News and transformed it into a real radical rag, printing the kind of stories LNS would later specialize in. His account of those years is refreshingly ironic- a welcome relief from those numerous tomes gravely relating the intricate workings of local politicos-but it unfortunately omits some events we would like to hear about. Mungo was there, and active, when the Resistance was still viable, when acid was to be avoided...