Word: offhandedness
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More and more examinations of the war are also being published. The best of the war novels and memoirs, in many ways, is Michael Herr's Dispatches (1977). Herr, who spent a year in Viet Nam covering the war for Esquire, writes prose that resembles some weapon the Pentagon...
Like a child distracted by the strange things mentioned in the poem, the narrator's voice lingers, hurries, skips, stretches and yawns. In a similar peripatetic fashion, three screens hung above the stage project slides of clippings from a 1923 magazine, echoing in an offhanded and unobtrusive way images and...
Yet, though she intends to go on in science after graduating and says, "I don't think after I get out of here that I'll ever conduct," she also adds, "I'm much more tied up in music than in my biology right now." When I first talked to...
With the same offhanded shrug, he dismisses the spectre of such early-squandered arms as Bob MacCool and Wally Bunker. "It doesn't bother me. I'll just go out and do my thing once or twice a week. They're taking good care of my arm."
In Saigon, however, Vice Premier Ky addressed a group of South Vietnamese pilots and suggested that ARVN might "have to cross to the other side of the Ben Hai River" and hit the North Vietnamese on their own ground. Ky's offhanded talk, one Washington official shrugged, "keeps the...