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...shown that there were neither enemy forces nor hostile fire in My Lai that day. Another document was a memorandum from Americal Division Headquarters banning the term "search and destroy" from the division's official vocabulary and suggesting the use of other phrases that would "give the reader no basis for assuming a lack of compassion on the part of members of this command." Indeed, compassion was not completely absent at My Lai. Immediately after the slaughter, G.I.s found two survivors, little girls. They fed the children and delivered them safely to neighboring Vietnamese...
...family letter addressed to her son Aymar, the only survivor of the seven children she had borne. With wit and unsentimental precision she recollected the exact details of a world that had vanished as if it never existed. What delights today's reader, though, is less the firsthand history (from the 1770s until Napoleon's return from Elba in 1815) than the self-portrait that slowly emerges. The Memoirs finally trace a cameo profile of aristocracy viewed from its better side and well deserving of the definition "grace under pressure...
...secure kind of pleasure to begin a novel by Canadian Writer Robertson Davies. This is not because the reader knows what will happen-Davies does not write formula fiction-but because he is serenely sure of what will not happen. The author will not hunt snarks, nor plant a forest of symbols and then get lost in it. Nor will he fail to have some compelling reason to write rather than remain silent...
...Many of the arguments presented hereafter will also be valid to some extent for other sports. The peculiar superiority of football can be demonstrated, but only up to a point. Beyond that, one can only appeal to the reader's taste and instinctive good sense...
...comparison is the easiest form of criticism, then the reader can get a sense of Love and Fame by comparing it to Catullus. Berryman is much like Catullus, a poet with a gloating ego, harping on his sexual prowess and his reputation, dropping names and places, an impudent golden boy. Berryman catalogues his life in this book, and every day of it is made larger than life...