Word: rowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Photographer David Douglas Duncan, whose War Without Heroes was published last week (Harper & Row; 252 pages; $14.95), has managed to recapture the war in all its grisly tedium. Looking deceptively like a cocktail-table art book, Duncan's gloom-shrouded pictures of American fighting men are packed more with fatigue than fight. There are no heroic actions; men shave, take muddy baths, clean up after shellbursts, write letters, stare vacantly at absolutely nothing while waiting for the next pointless action. The photographs have the stink of death, the feel of futility and, on any cocktail table, far surpass alcohol...
...Club for the dinner was not damaged in any extensive or serious way, but it is not likely that the Owl Club will be back next year. "Why do you think we have it in a different place every year? Nobody can take us two years in a row," a member said...
Harvard ran an encouraging, but not outstanding, race yesterday in New York's Van Cortlandt Park to finish third in the IC4A championships. Villanova won the title for the fifth year in a row, and Pitt was second...
...hastily done record; and listening to it, I felt as if Dyland had gone out of his way to thumb his nose at everyone who bought his records on faith. He had put his name on a record and asked us to plunk down six dollars expecting maybe "Desolation Row" or "All Along the Watchtower" or at minimum, "Country Pie." But all we got was: "Ba-loo a-moon, you saw me standing a-lone...
...WRECKAGE OF AGATHON by John Gardner. 243 pages. Harper & Row...