Word: attack
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Freshman, in '41-'42. I used the under-stands area on rainy days to run lacrosse attack patterns with my coach and a few teammates, I suppose a few amateur athletes may use it thus today-but still and all, we could have used the Cage, and the Stadium leaked badly, even then; I am sure it needs even more repair...
...Died. Arthur H. Thornhill, 74, board chairman of Little, Brown and Co., one of the country's foremost publishing houses; of a heart attack; in Boston. Thornhill liked to regard himself as simply a salesman, but he was much more. His good taste, enthusiasm for literature and unfailing respect for his writers attracted many eminent authors, including Samuel Eliot Morison, John P. Marquand, Katherine Anne Porter, Ogden Nash, J. D. Salinger and Peter De Vries. In 1962, after almost 50 years with the company, Thornhill turned the presidency over to his son, Arthur H. Jr., but retained the chairmanship...
...Lawrence finally won his request for counsel, and MACV launched an official investigation of his censorship complaints. As the inquiry got under way, Lawrence found his flank under attack: the Army served him with court-martial charges for insubordination late last year. Lawrence, it seems, was preparing a newscast when a sergeant asked him to drive some soldiers to their quarters. Lawrence refused and, according to the charges, was also "disrespectful in language." Such a trait would hardly seem to fit him for the Army's next move, which was to make Lawrence a chaplain's aide...
Merrill in Merrill's Maranders decides to keep marching onward, probably to extermination. His decision denies the validity of physical and psychological fatigue; but this side of human existence revenges itself upon him. In the final push, mustering his men, he drops from a heart attack. In his exhortation immediately before he is clearly insane, he orders men forward against their bodies and wills for some maniacal purpose. Having stressed one aspect of reality and denied the other, he is stricken down by what he denied...
Insanity, the direct consequence of intolerable contradictions, is thus an objective fact, not a subjective claim on sympathy. We see the nightmares that plague the reporter's imagination and equally hear the cries of demented patients around him. Objective and subjective, exterior and interior experience become a single attack on his sanity. Fuller's direct way of showing his hero's experience is not crudely simplistic. We must be able to see everything that happens; the experiences of his characters have to be open...