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...friends placed in plastic body bags, his sensitivity gave way to a determined indifference. A corpse became merely someone he had "clobbered in ping pong back in Chu Lai." Like other wars, there were too many challenges to what was perceived as a man's courage for more than grim sentimentality. "Watching friends die gnaws at you," O'Brien says. "If I had gone through World War II, I probably would have written much the same book...
...Ellsberg last week, a memo from the Justice Department was handed to U.S. District Judge William Matthew Byrne. It disclosed that two of the convicted Watergate conspirators-G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt-had broken into the office of a psychiatrist to obtain files dealing with Ellsberg. A grim-faced Byrne ordered the document revealed to the defense. Then he told the prosecution that he wanted all the additional facts behind the breakin. Were the pair working for the U.S. Government at the time? he wanted to know...
...scene in 1959 with the award-winning Goodbye, Columbus, a novella whose tartness and clarity showed precisely what it was like to be a young Jew from Newark, N.J., ashamed of his lower-middle-class background and humiliated by the pretensions of the suburban newly rich. There followed two grim and carefully worked novels in which Roth misplaced his fresh, astringent tone. Letting Go (1962) and When She Was Good (1967) were grim and blistering forced marches through America with full literary field pack...
Even in the best of years, much of sub-Saharan Africa is stalked by the grim specter of famine. This year has been one of the worst. A 40-month drought has left the area brown and blistered. Crops have failed; millions of cattle have died. Thousands of farmers are eating seed grains to stave off starvation, thus ensuring that there will be insufficient food from future harvests. In lands where suicide is rare, starving nomads, after losing their herds, have killed themselves in desperation...
With such a grim, bleak view, relentlessly abetted by Jeff Bleckner's stolidly reverential direction, there is little room for such diversionary tactics as entertainment or such revisionist behavior as love and the spontaneous response of one human being to another. Only one actor seems to escape the arid dogmatism of the evening-Marcia Jean Kurtz as Clytemnestra the mother. When she pleads for her daughter's life, she reveals a tenacity and a tenderness that banish all curses and shame all crimes...