Word: attack
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Passos, who died last week of a heart attack at 74, was the last major survivor of the literary generation that included Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck and Faulkner. His work has been slighted in recent years. Politics-the central theme and passion of much of his writing-helped to undermine his reputation. Read today, Dos Passes' earlier works often seem as archaic as the rhetoric of Wobblies. But there are also passages that seem eerily prescient: "All right we are two nations. America our nation has been beaten by strangers who have bought the laws and fenced off the meadows...
...first Esquire article does not carry Calley through the My Lai attack, but after he was charged with the multiple murders, he clung to that same sense of duty: "Well, the war's wrong. Killing's wrong. But that's what my country asked...
Unpleasant Reminder. For his part, Goodell has little to lose-and perhaps something to gain-from the Agnew attack. He met it head-on by claiming that Agnew was out to "purge" him. Said Goodell: "This is campaign season, and the Vice President is on the campaign trail. But let's not try to imply that people who disagree with the Administration on this or that issue are somehow like the people who 'trash' campuses and burn banks and blow up mathematics centers. That sort of rhetoric is an unpleasant reminder of the chilling political climate...
Also, Munro felt that Columbia might be weakest at Harvard's strength on the field-the wings. "Our fullback wings were a little timid to join the attack against Amherst," Munro said. "Columbia has two strong inside fullbacks but their outside fullbacks should be weak. If we emphasize our attack on the wings, we should cause a lot of trouble...
...deeply hurt. The mass media have been under vicious attack recently, but even President Nixon and his golfing partner, Spiro Agnew, have not been so rash as to take issue with coverage on the sports page. "You gave too much attention to the front line last year, ignoring almost completely the halfbacks and fullbacks. I was very happy that in our most important game, the game against Hartwick, John Gordon, a halfback, scored the winning goal," Thomas said...