Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More certain-and perhaps more mystifying-was the situation on the battlefield. Except for the clash at Ben Het, which ended last week (see THE WORLD), there was almost complete silence from the enemy, and American intelligence reported that three North Vietnamese regiments, or about 7,500 men, had been pulled back across the Demilitarized Zone into the North. At a news conference, Secretary of State William Rogers said that "we have had the lowest level of combat activity in Viet Nam for a long time, possibly the whole war." Since the severity of enemy activity has been...
...times which see the U.S. government waging a hateful was abroad while the domestic political community is torn to shreds, it appears that, for some students, the university must become the one pure haven in an impure society. Others would make it a battlefield for tooth and nail combat in a kind of dress rehearsal for the larger revolution. At the same time, still other students and faculty factions stand almost as steadfastly opposed to such demands...
...program note, Kahn says: "The play is set on a stage which is a playground which is an arena which is a battlefield. The games of this play are the games of war, of conquest, of territory, of power, of betrayal, and of love--games played every day in the playground--and the space is transformed, as the playground is, into whatever or whatever the players want it to be." The trouble with this is that the Elizabethans did not regard these things as "games", as mere make-believe; these things were the very stuff of history and the very...
...caption that purports to distill the ideological essence of the scene to follow. Thus we hear, for instance: "Scene 7: Siege of Harfleur; Propaganda of the Machine; The People Follow"; "Scene 11: Winter Continues; Discourses on War and Death; The Army Marches"; "Scene 15: Economic Lesson on the Battlefield"; "Scene 17: Exeter Tells the Lie of Noble Death...
...doubt they will want to put you safely into the Navy-the last place where the wars of modern Britain will be fought. We should like to see you in the real battlefield-in the Wolverbampton ghettos and the dreary bedsitting rooms of west London. They will give you a smart blue uniform and a stiff upper lip. We would rather give you a girl, a grin and a purpose in life...