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...Defense Department employees who bring, as might be expected, a rare spit and polish to the job. More than 300 Defense officials, says Florence, have been given "original" authority to classify documents; hundreds of thousands of others have what is termed "derivative" power to classify. A virtual army marches through the Pentagon shooting down reams of innocent documents-truly a case of documental genocide. "In the past several years," says ex-classifier Florence, "I have not heard one person in the Department of Defense say that he had no authority to classify information." It is obviously a skill within...
...counts is glorious singing. The only trouble is that no amount of fine vocalizing will make an opera like Otello or Wozzeck work without a steady, compelling baton on the podium. Yet it is difficult to get, let alone keep, good conductors in a house where singing stars have virtual veto power over their maestros. As a result, good conducting has been almost as elusive at the Met as good ballet...
Romantic Belief. Ford later said that he was the virtual author of Conrad's story Amy Foster and that he was both better off and better known than Conrad. Both claims were balderdash. Yet as Mizener shows, Conrad did owe a good deal to Ford, who did in fact once write a 16-page installment of Nostromo. To show how close their literary relationship was, Mizener quotes a letter from Conrad proposing to sell one of Ford's stories as his own. A newspaper syndicate had asked for a story, but Conrad had none ready. Could Ford spare...
Within hours after launching a tank-led offensive in Dacca and other East Pakistani cities on the night of March 25, the Pakistan army imposed a virtual blackout on the brutal civil war in Bangla Desh (Bengal State) by expelling foreign newsmen. TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin, who was among them, recently trekked back from India by Honda, truck, bus and bicycle to become the first American journalist to visit Dacca since the fighting started. His report...
...leaves the Crimson in a virtual tie with Cornell, Princeton, and Navy for the lead in the Eastern League race...