Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Herbert was assigned to Viet Nam in September 1968, first in a staff position, then as a battalion commander in the field. The following July he was back in the U.S., relieved of his combat command after just 58 days, his exemplary 19-year service record marred by an efficiency report so adverse that his career was ruined. He immediately began appealing the Army's action against him, and 18 months later made a serious public charge; the reason for his disgrace, he said, was that he had accused two superior officers of covering up war crimes...
...warrant courts-martial. The dispute spilled into the open. A five-page summary of L'Affaire Herbert was released by Pentagon officials. The report notes that Herbert did not bring up his war-crime allegations until a year and a half after he had been relieved of his command, and only after his third review to reverse the bad efficiency rating had been turned down. Nowhere in the written record of hearings held in Viet Nam after losing his command nor in the appeals that followed, the Army said, did Herbert raise the issue of war crimes. Herbert...
Standing on a tower, world at my command...
Celibacy, birth control, marriage laws and other matters of dogma and discipline may be in the forefront, but the real crisis in the church is one of authority-and whether the government of the church can still command it in the minds of many Catholics. "Authority belongs to those who have authentic voices," writes Maryknoll Psychologist Eugene C. Kennedy in a new book, In the Spirit, in the Flesh, "those who speak to the experience and hopes of mankind...
...seems like an experienced physician smoothly examining a naked patient. The effect is a fascination that distracts the mind from predictability of both plot and retribution. The end finds Rabbit and Janice joining up once again with the cold, metallic precision of a lunar landing vehicle docking with its command module after a mission. "O.K.?" is the last word of the novel. It is a taciturn echo of space talk, but it is also a grounded, middle-aged Updike saying, in effect, "What did you expect...