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When the 1914 war with Germany broke out, Czarist Russia was unprepared. Yet she instantly sent two armies into East Prussia. Both were ill-equipped, underfed and hampered from headquarters by more than the usual complement of careerist nitwits, blockheaded aristocrats and plain cowards familiar in the literature of military debacle. In the resulting battle, the Russian Second Army, lumbering westward in the vicinity of Tannenberg, was enveloped by the Germans. More than 90,000 prisoners were taken. In a few days, despite great courage shown by many Russian regiments and officers, the Second Army ceased to exist. Its brave...
There is no particular reason why the components of this book should complement each other. Some of the articles were written by author who would be called a hawk while others, such as "Murder in Laos," were written by a dovish individual. Some of them were written by a Pentagon insider and directed toward fellow insiders; one is transcribed testimony given before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; while another is a speech delivered before a church group. Written for different audiences and by a individual with changing attitudes, the pieces are a very mixed, and rather unpolished...
...finally, after years of discussion, upperclass advisors have been housed in the Yard. The upperclassmen will not replace traditional graduate student freshmen proctors, but will complement them, according to the freshman dean's office...
Richard Benjamin as Portnoy is no more credible with his clothes off. He looks the part: his high, shiny cheeks and full, wavy hair give him the bright man-child appearance to complement the 33 -year-old character's infantile emotions. But when Benjamin opens his mouth, he seems about as out of place as Howdy Doody in Hamlet. His readings of Roth's lines are pure balsa wood...
...roster of contestants can easily warp the reflection of what people really think. Because our business is to report on these attitudes as well as an election's outcome and impact, we introduce this week a new campaign-season feature -a report on a TIME Citizens Panel to complement our cover story on George McGovern...