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Skipping the traditional oral intelligence briefings that come packaged with map board, pointer and colonel attached, he demands tightly written papers that he can scan with his built-in, wide-screen-camera mind. Answers to hard questions are demanded with computer speed. The Pentagon's "action officers" now act; "project officers" project. Says a staffer: "I've never been so flattened out since law school. Among other things, he's piling on the work to find out who can produce; if you can't, you're out." And McNamara keeps a special task force...
...Vienna State Opera and later with the Met. Debeljevic attends every one of his wife's rehearsals and performances, selects engagements that fall within the "frame" of her career and ruthlessly rejects others, helps design her personal wardrobe. He also walks the dogs (a Weimaraner and a pointer), parks the car, and always travels with her: "Someone has to carry the money. She never does. She sings, as she says, for the dog biscuits, and I do the worrying." To help her relax, he took up yoga with her, and when she needs slimming, he goes on a diet...
...artists had ever been shown at the Academy. One was Joan Floyd of Bristol, who had a painting hung in 1928 when she was 14, but gave up her career for marriage. The other was Master (later Sir) Edwin Landseer, whose Portrait of a Mule and Portrait of a Pointer Bitch and Puppy created a sensation in 1915 when Landseer was only...
Savages & Cavalry. Setting his story n a different locale, the Southwest, but at about the same period. New Mexico's prolific Paul Horgan runs into somewhat similar trouble with his fictional hero. Matthew Hazard, U.S. cavalry officer, is coltishly appealing, brave, leathery, and a West Pointer. By page 100 he is out n Arizona Territory looking for hostile Apaches, and he should loom larger than life, but somehow he looks smaller. The real heroes are again the landscape and the history that fills...
After almost 20 years as a U.S. career diplomat (he resigned in 1953) and onetime head of the Voice of America, Charles W. (for Wheeler) Thayer does not believe in lying diplomacy. In this urbane, witty and information-packed volume of shoptalk about the diplomatic life, West Pointer ('33) Thayer outlines his notion that diplomats ought to rely on patience, sound education, a controlled temper-and honesty. That, feels Thayer, is the basis of the West's diplomatic tradition, despite occasional blunders and deceits. But there is another diplomatic school, the Byzantine, and its deceitful and violent tradition...