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Just What War Is: The Civil War Writings of DeForest and Bierce. Michael Schaefer. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1997. Pp. 172, including bibliography and index. $36.00
Reviewed By Jack M. Shuttleworth, United States Air Force Academy
Readers of Civil War histories and fiction are well served by Michael W. Schaefers Just What War Is: The Civil War Writings of DeForest and Bierce. Though focusing closely on the two writers, Schaefer adroitly extends their observations of that most destructive war into other times, other wars. The first of three parts of the book "Under Fire: The Components of Realism in Combat Writing" offers a healthy corrective to romanticized or cinematic versions of combat. These three chapters wisely dispense with the conventional fustian of glory, grandeur, and cardboard heroics with a clear eyed understanding that a soldiers first concern is almost always personal survival, dealt with in a variety of ways. "What veterans emphasize," he tells us, "is that the soldiers concern for personal survival is normally subsumed into an overriding concentration on the mechanics presently at hand: loading, aiming, firing"(11). Despite romantic historians claims to the contrary, the cause for which troops fight has far less to do with their performance than the quality of their training and their concentration on the jobs to be done. And, with special pertinence to the writings of DeForest and Bierce, Schaefer admirably treats the various manifestations of fear and its mastery, though recognizing as well the devastating effects of a forced or panicked retreat and more importantly the loss of unit cohesiveness (certainly a lesson there for contemporary DOD staffers). In a comment with special pertinence for writers, he points out the difference between observational accuracy, which many writers have, and literary realism which few attain: "Realism lies not in just getting the surface appearance right, but in imparting to it some kind of meaning or feeling" (17). As unfashionable as such a view may be in parts of the academic world today, readers seek meaning and significance from the books they read; they seek the interpretive insights of a qualified writer such as DeForest, Bierce, and Schaefer.
The other two parts of the book break not quite evenly into discussions of the writing of John W. DeForest, best known for being among the earliest Civil War writers as well as his novel Miss Ravenels Conversion from Secession to Loyalty (1867), and Ambrose Bierce, famous for his short stories like "Chickamauga" or "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." Both took active roles in the war, both saw significant combat, both wrote extensivelyDeForest under the influence of earlier writers and Bierce largely idiosyncraticallyand each developed distinctive ways of seeing and reporting the war. Where DeForest thought a military writer could get to the truth in an accurate and reliable way, Bierce was far more skeptical (as one would expect from him). He saw that "those men who have successful military careers are the ones who ordinarily get to write the official histories" and that those who do, often have powerful personal reasons for not reporting objectively, an observation that anyone who has read more than two or three accounts of a single war or battle can understand easily.
Schaefer summarizes these two very interesting writers this way: "DeForest, however much he desired to tell the whole truth as he saw it, could not break completely free from either the romantic literary conventions or the traditional conception of military professional- ism. . . . Conversely, Bierces truth can be accounted for as the logical product of his more intense, idiosyncratic, iconoclastic temper, of his contempt for literary and military conventions of any sort". . . (134). Fortunately, for students of the Civil War, Schaefers book helps us see these two important figures clearly, free both from romantic literary conventions and fads and with a tolerant and discriminating insight.
Fragments. Binjamin Wilkomirski. Translated by Carol Brown Janeway. New York: Schocken Books, 1996. Pp. 155. $20.00.
All Rivers Run to the Sea. Elie Wiesel. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Pp. 432. $30.00.
Art from the Ashes. Edited by Lawrence Langer. New York: Oxford UP, 1995. Pp. 694. $30.00.
Facing the Extreme. Tzvetan Todorov. Translated by Arthur Denner and Abigail Pollak. New York: Henry Holt, 1996. Pp. 307. $27.50.
Reviewed by Petra Gallert, United States Air Force Academy
Its been suggested that writing literature after World War II must inevitably occur in the shadow of the Holocaust. Such a claim might seem sentimental and perhaps a bit grand (after all, did not Napoleon provoke the death of millions whose fates remain relatively obscure?), but a most welcome number of recent publications suggest that now, fifty years after the end of the war, we can begin to combine fugitive approaches and materials to form a clearer view of the nature and extent of that shadow.
By no means have all survivors of the prison and death camps cared to put into words their experiences and memories. In the face of those who would shrink back from a painful past or even deny that the Holocaust (or Shoah) ever took place we must be especially grateful to the survivors who agree to revisit what the human mind would surely rather forget. Among these survivors is Binjamin Wilkomirski whose Fragments delineate not only shreds of images, conversations, and experiences borne away from the concentration camp universe and its aftermath; indeed, one of this small volumes merits is the perplexity with which aspects of identity are laid bare. So, for example, the book begins with a personal meditation on the role of language. Trying to find his childhood voice, Wilkomirski recalls his own speaking to be linked with the Yiddish of his brother, then to be modified by whatever was spoken in the childrens barracks, a pared down and utilitarian language exclusively in the service of survival, and finally to disappear altogether as if this childs universe had become inexpressible. Dream-like, nightmarish vignettes of cruelty and helplessness, combine with stark facts, such as the utter lack of a birth certificate for a person who grows to accept provisionally that he is Binjamin Wilkomirski, underscoring the instability of Wilkomirskis world. The "rules" for survival learned during camp life continue to operate as he stumbles through his rescued life in orphanages and, finally, a Swiss foster family. The narrative proceeds mostly through flashbacks anchored to the more solid "present moment"; an event or image will trigger links with events or images from his ragged past and that past provides the stable matrix by which the boy evaluates his new world. For example, Chapter Five describes one instance of Wilkomirskis puzzlement during the early days of orphanage life where "I was always forbidden to stick to the most important rules of survi-val. . . . But the nurses and the other children seemed to have forgotten it all. . . . They did everything with such dangerous carelessness" (44-5). Indeed, Wilkomirski often seems arrested in time. While this small book itself may be an attempt to find a link between interior person and exterior voice, the unspeakable remains: no language Wilkomirski acquires in his "reconstructed" life can merge spirit and word adequately. He sees himself as alienated and unassimilated into the postwar world. And, his book deftly matches in form and style the fragmentedness of the childs mind. But it does so better in the German of the original edition of this book than in its English translation. Curiously, the table of contents, with chapter headings that reflect a sense of types and categories in the German text, has been omitted from the English version. In the English text chapter headings are merely numerals. Somehow, the name of one of his very few friends is "Karola" in the German but "Mila" in the English text. Locally mistranslated images may perhaps be excusedtranslations, especially of literary texts, are notoriously problematic. But one wonders why "editorial" passages appear in the English version (and not the German) and one wonders especially whether they came from the author himself or from the translator. No foreword or footnote explains the changes. Content suggests some may be authorial. A lengthy passage added to the end of the final chapter in the English version seems authorial; in it Wilkomirskis physics teacher, the only person he felt understood him, is described as an abiding mentor figure. Consequently, the consoling, "look on the bright side" effect of this addition permits the question whether (and in whose eyes) English-speaking audiences might require such notes of comfort. Given that language and its importance in articulating voice and identity are such pronounced issues in this book, it seems ironic that the text is even more slippery for obscure reasons of the present rather than of the fragmentarily remembered past.
Much like Elie Wiesels Night (after The Diary of Anne Frank perhaps the most widely known piece of Holocaust literature), Wilkomirskis book is a view into the limbo of a childs experience almost without a sense of future. But where Night is the beginning of broad-ranging investigations pursuing responses to the Holocaust, Wilkomirskis step into the present is far more tenuous. Wilkomirski offers an afterword of humbler ambition: the confusions in memory and identity drove him to reconstruct the past; the book is his plea for support of others similarly distraught by the deeply unsettling experiences and memories of the concentration camps.
Elie Wiesel will, one hopes and anticipates gladly, continue his Nobel Prize-winning career of writing and speaking on behalf of Holocaust survivors and of humanity. In a sense, though, his recent memoir All Rivers Run to the Sea seems to set a closing bracket around a body of work opened by Night. All Rivers Run to the Sea returns to the subject matter of Night but goes much further by filling in context and details which seemed to have evaporated from the world of Night. In All Rivers Run to the Sea, Wiesel fills in rich multitudes of stories and characters that shaped the young boy whose defining experience was that of a Holocaust survivor. We learn of his extended family as well as of his surviving sisters, his gradual and often unsure new life in France and, later, the United States, as journalist, translator, and novelist. Wiesels retrospective is especially moving when it deals with difficult and ambivalent issues, such as the fact that a member of his own family was a ranking member of a concentration camp hierarchy.
As usual, Wiesel emphasizes the symbolic importance of telling the story for remembrance, celebration, and instruction. Schooled not only in officially traditional Jewish culture but also steeped in the mysteries of the Kabbalah, Wiesel explains movingly the beginning fascination with language and metaphors with which to grasp at the unspeakable. Not surprisingly, writing becomes the predominant activity of his life. Very clearly, though, his writing serves purposes beyond itself. While one can read this smoothly written memoir for the sake of knowing more about Wiesel the private and public person, much material of historical interest (in his capacity as journalist and translator he interacted with several great minds and statesmen of the post-war decades) allows glimpses of his contemporaries. For Wiesel, the purpose is different: "Some see their work as a commentary on their life; for others it is the other way around. I count myself among the latter" (17).
For many years now Professor (now Emeritus) Lawrence Langer has been promoting the discussion of the literature of the Holocaust. Despite his long years of engagement with this material he brings to its study a deep distrust of art and of the adequacy of the human imagination. His voice is one of the clearest reminding us that sinking to the level of a Hollywood rendition and "pander[ing] to a hungry popular clamor for reassurance that mass murder had its redeeming features" (7) is morally (and not merely artistically) unacceptable. He adamantly disagrees that any event in human history may be compared to the Holocaust; he insists that "reading and writing about the Holocaust is an experience in unlearning" (6) because it defies "precedent and analogy [in literature]; Edmund and Iago seem mild in comparison with Nazi savagery, and the choices available to traditional heroes bear little resemblance to the situations into which Jews were plunged" (7). Specifically, and contrary to those who would agree with Victor Frankl, Langer upbraids the "comforting notion that suffering has meaning" (5). Out of an apparent reluctance to hand over Holocaust "evidence" to literature emerges an idiosyncratic anthology sure to have a wide impact. Art from the Ashes will, not only because Oxford University Press is its publisher, but also because it brings together materials from several genres, no doubt become a staple in classrooms (and the price is right, too, though one wishes that a hefty volume of almost seven hundred pages had received a sturdier exterior than the now customary perfect-bound incarnation. A few bends of my copy quickly produced breaks in the spine.). Its idiosyncrasy will be useful in spurring on thinking and engaging with the material.
The form of the anthology is not unusual; Langer has made access to categories and individual writers easy by providing introductory material. The poetry section is impressive; the representative drama piece is the very rich Ghetto by Joshua Sobol. Twenty black and white drawings add a welcome visual dimension. His guiding editorial principle has been to include not only unfamiliar texts but to choose texts which, to him, dispense with "safe props for [their] impact" (7). For example, he alludes to a point George Steiner set up in The Death of Tragedy (though in a different context), that "tragedy" as a category is unsuitable in dealing with Holocaust literature; similarly, the familiar categories and assumptions of a Dante no longer apply. "The dubious feat of wresting meaning from the murder of 5 to 6 million innocent men, women, and children I leave to more hopeful souls. The majority of the texts I draw on refuse that temptation, though many address the painful irony of the annihilation of European Jewry in a world where nature still flourished and love prevailed" (7-8). Some might wonder to what extent nature truly is flourishing and where indeed that place might be where love truly prevailed, but Langers bitterness raises the issue of facile conclusions and must be respected.
A superb response to Art from the Ashes is Tzvetan Todorovs analysis of the moral complexities surrounding concentration camps. Intrigued by the desolation of a Jewish cemetery in Warsaw, visiting scholar, critic and moralist Todorov began to discover for himself through meticulous research in survivor memoirs, historical documents, and critical commentary the story of the Warsaw ghetto and its uprising. The resulting volume Facing the Extreme manages to articulate and illuminate in a lively and accessible way such philosophically knotty issues as Hannah Arendts concept of "the banality of evil" (as well as the parallel mystery of evil) as a kind of roadmap with which to explore not only Holocaust literature but the continuing frameworks within which we live. Todorov traces the characteristics of heroism, the motivations, patterns and limitations of the hero figure as exemplified in historical figures ("loyalty to an ideal" borne out in almost reckless acts of "courage," the tendency towards abstraction and binary opposition, the compelling fear of being afraid, and a peculiar, romantic view of death: "To the hero, death has more value than life" because only through it "is it possible to attain the absolute" (10). Against such "heroic virtues" Todorov posits examples of quiet "ordinary virtues" such as dignity, and caring, all the while stressing the importance of individual responsibility and individual will: "the real difference comes down to the question of whether it is for people or ideas that one has chosen to die (or live)" (20). For Todorov the truer measure of courage and humanity is the responsibility and sacrifice shown towards another, very real human being. As he articulated his core intention in a previous book, The Conquest of America,
I believe in the necessity of "seeking the truth" and in the obligation of making it known; I know that the function of information exists, and that the effect of information can be powerful. My hope is . . . that we remember what can happen if we do not succeed in discovering the other. (247)
The increasing wealth of writings about the Holocaust, spurred on no doubt by the urgency of a dying generation of survivors, has produced a number of memorable books and with them a remarkable set of questions more urgently put to Literature and Aesthetics than ever before. To the forefront have come, for example, questions concerning the reliability of memories and memoirs and the tension between silence and speaking out. As poet W.D. Snodgrass pointed out in an afterword to his The Fuehrer Bunker, "writers, of course, must try to be believable; events are under no such constraint." But perhaps most strikingly, Holocaust literature combines aesthetic and ethical questions with a call to individual responsibility and action. As Todorov writes in Facing the Extreme,
To revive the stories of the camps today actually means to continue a struggle begun while they were still in operation. The proper functioning of concentration camps requires that neither the inmatesor witnessesnor even the guards have precise knowledge of what is going on; therefore, the first weapon against them is the collection and diffusion of information (254).
Such information and memory is of greater than merely historical interest. These books are vitally important if humanist values are important. The shadow of the Shoah continues to lengthen, but it grows not without brilliant minds drawing on profound conviction and considerable writing talent to define its features more and more clearly.
Works Cited
Snodgrass, W.D. The Fuehrer Bunker. Brockport, NY:
Boa Editions, 1977.
Todorov, Tzvetan. The Conquest of America. Trans.
by Richard Howard. New York: Harper & Row, 1984.
Wellington. A Personal History. Christopher Hibbert. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1997. Pp. 460, including illustrations, notes, and index. $30.00.
Reviewed by Elizabeth A. Muenger, United States Air Force Academy
Many historians will greet with slight surprise the new Christopher Hibbert biography, Wellington. A Personal History. In recent years, as military history itself has fallen on evil times, so too have the military giants of legend. Even the heavy industry of Wellingtons great foe, Napoleon, has slowed of late to mere cottage craft. What, then, is the purpose of a new study on . . . Wellington? Did not Elizabeth Longford get the job done with her magisterial two-volume biography of Wellington in the early 1970s? What more can be said about a general who introduced no particularly noteworthy innovations in warfare, who led no revolutions, who practiced no magnetism of personality in leadership, and who elicited none of the idealistic devotion that others of his age inspired? One might presume that the intellectual market for new archival research on the out-of-fashion Iron Duke would be next to extinct.
It is true that anyone who has read the earlier Wellington scholarsFraser, Gleig, Oman, Fortesque, Guedalla, Ward, Petrie, Glover or Longford (and there have been many others)will not find anything in Hibberts book that dramatically changes the assessment of Wellington made in the past. The Duke remains much as he has always been, a slightly mysterious, stern and contradictory being, growing from a seemingly callow and ill-equipped youth into one of the most revered figures of early Victorian England. Even those who despised all he represented were often effectively cowed by his courage and his overwhelming presence. In an age that pressed for democratic reform, he remained classically Tory, and by doing so, perhaps did more for sensible political and social betterment in England than has ever been acknowledged.
What we have in Hibberts biography is not a new Wellington, but an expanded and humanized Wellington, crying over the Waterloo casualty lists, assuring a young aide who had lost his arm that his position would be waiting for him upon his recovery, raising an assortment of children not his own, sitting patiently and comfortingly for weeks at the deathbed of the wife he had never been able to love. Hibbert uses Wellingtons dry wit, documented throughout his life to illustrate his political acumen, often neglected by other historians. "A perfect walking sore" was his evaluation of Louis XVIII, one which competes in graphic detail with other assessments of the later Bourbons (161.)
Hibbert, in devoting fully half the book to Wellingtons political career after Waterloo, emphasizes the duality of the mans service to his country. Almost half Wellingtons life was spent, not on battlefields, but in government, where he occupied a variety of crucial positions for over three decades. Always conservative, he yet enjoyed a close friendship with Lord Melbourne, the foremost Whig of the day. Almost always sensible, he alone reminded the government, in the early 1820s, that glorification of the then-active South American revolutionaries cast into doubt the logic of the simultaneous vilification of the Irish rebel Daniel OConnell (248.) Politically gregarious, he continued to "love being consulted and mixed up in messes," as the diarist Charles Greville noted, even into old age (245.)
His most selfless political acts came in the wake of legislative defeats, when three times he used his considerable influence to obtain the passage of the Catholic Emancipation Act (1829), the Great Reform Act (1832), and the repeal of the Corn Laws (1846.) These three acts dealt fatal blows to the continued preservation of much that Wellington believed in. His conviction, however, that legislative defeat for any of these bills would presage political chaos overrode his own political philosophy and moved the country into the reform era with minimum unrest and maximum grace. In Hibberts work, finally, we understand and can admire Wellingtons many contradictions, reconciling them with an appreciation of the courage and force of his character.
There is one area as yet unsatisfactorily explored by all Wellington historians, and that is the process by which an ineffectual boy transformed himself into an ambitious professional officer, one whose well-studied military library reveals a serious scholar of his trade. When did this begin to happen? Why did this evolution take place in Arthur Wellesley, when in so many of his class, with their purchased commissions and lackadaisical careers, it did not? How did such an unremarkable flower of the minor aristocracy nurture his own acquiring of maturity, common sense, courage, and even a certain humility? These are questions which should interest us; an examination of them always is owed us in biography.
The book suffers occasionally from the assumption that the reader is well-versed not only in British subtleties of culture and history, but also in the art of untangling the occasional Medusa-like sentence. As a ploy to test the readers parsing talents, Hibberts narrative style is highly successful. In general, however, the sophistication of the prose is a welcome change from the current tendency to deal simplistically with our language.
The Flower of Battle: How Britain Wrote the Great War. Hugh Cecil. South Royalton, Vermont: Steerforth Press,1996. Pp. 440. Photographs, notes, index. $32.00.
Reviewed by Ross Gresham, United States Air Force Academy
The writers to whom Hugh Cecil devotes each of the central dozen chapters of his The Flower of Battle are the lesser knownOliver Onions rather than Siegfried Sassoon, Wildfrid Ewart rather than Wilfred Owens. There are writers who were best-sellers in their time but missed inclusion in the literary canon (R. H. Mottram, Ewart, Robert Keable, Gilbert Frankau, Onions, and Richard Blaker). There are those who never attracted much attention, including some who put forth just a single work (Ronald Gruner, V.M. Yeates, A.D. Gristwood, Herbert Read). There is the minorly famous Richard Aldington and the woman writer Pamela Hinkson, who published under the pen name of Peter Deane.
Such a list immediately impresses upon one the strength of the Cecils book, which is his seeming omniscience of the postwar literary scene. And Cecil by no means limits himself to these dozen figures. Cecil, a historian at Leeds University, focuses more heavily on biography than literary analysis, and each chapter places the author among his or her influencesliterary influences, family, friends. A cover-to-cover reading is an education in the literary atmosphere of a decade. Some major (and useful) generalizations Cecil draws explicitly, such as the "hopeful" novels predominating in the early twenties and disenchanted in the later twenties." Somefor example, the workings of the publishing business at the timea reader picks up simply from successive accounts, a dozen different cases.
Twelve different livesthe book shows a lot through simple accretion of detail. It shows a lot about the combat experience, for example. Nearly all the featured authors fought in the war, and some of Cecils chapters are almost exclusively attempts to reconstruct the mens war exploits. It shows a lot about societal morays of the timethe divorces, the affairs. It shows a lot about the veterans post-war experiences.
Its important to note that Cecil labels his book social history rather than literary criticism. He is not trying to show these authors neglected merits or make claims as to their forgotten influence. Because most of his readers are unlikely to have read even their major works, to do any analysis, he must quote and summarize heavily. This limits what he can do, especially with the novelists, and many times his approach is to compare the authors work with his or her life, as best Cecil can reconstruct it.
Some of these biographies are poignant. Robert Keable served as a missionary to Africa before the war, then went to the Western Front as chaplain to a contingent of native South African laborers. Cecil explains how padres were often derided in accounts of the war as shirkers of combat and prudes. Keable at least proved himself innocent of the latter charge. Though married, he struck up a wartime affair, then after the war left his wife for his mistress. He wrote a somewhat scandalous novel entitled Simon Called Peter about an Anglican padre who has a passionate affair with a nurse at the front. He resigned his church living, converted to Catholicism, and soon retired to Tahiti, where he continued his scandalous behavior by speaking out for open marriages. He continued to write and live in Tahiti until he died in 1927.
Wilfrid Ewart was killed on a balcony in Mexico City by a stray bullet fired in New Years revels below. Richard Blaker died in Los Angeles after a failed career as a screen writer. Ronald Gruner, headmaster at a prestigious school and a legitimate combat hero, committed suicide by drinking a bottle of Lysol.
Some of the lives are less interesting. Make no mistake, Cecil tackles his subject with the passion of a devotee, a fan, and to his palate, five or six pages on the extent to which Henry Williamson (another war novelist) influenced V. M. Yeates Winged Victory is not excessive. Many times he discusses not only the authors history, but the history of his parents, certainly of his wife.
One cant begrudge a man his passions. But Cecil does occasionally suffer from the over-confidence of the biographer. He can psychologize to excess: the introduction makes the blanket claim that "the first goal for those who wrote [was] to take back from the war, or to learn to live with, their all too frequent loss of their schoolchilds faith. . . ." Of course the accounts of the individual lives make it clear these people wrote for the usual reasonsmoney, fame, something to say. And at times Cecil knows more about his subjects than one would about a twin brother. Some figures Cecil knows so well he can offer marital advice:
The deep undercurrent of frustration in their relationship might have been eased had he actively encouraged her to revive her musical interests and asserted his own views about where and how they should live. She tended the put these above the needs of his social life. Besides, her nature was to want him more to herself after the deep hurt of the breakup of her first marriage.
One can excuse Cecil a certain amount of nineteenth-century characterization because his book leaves no doubt that if anyone knows these people and this age, it is he. The Flower of Battle should be read by anyone interested in literary England for the decade or so after the World War I, anyone interested in a compelling biography of these figures, and anyone curious about that print that war can leave on the lives of its survivors.
Authors at Sea. Ed. Robert Shenk. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997. Pp. 318. Illus. $33.95.
Mark D. Noe, United States Air Force Academy
One of the final excerpts in Robert Shenks collection is a letter Kenneth Dodson wrote to his wife in early 1944. Dodson, author of Away All Boats and other fiction, describes Japanese dead on a beachhead, then an American pilot who tried, too late, to parachute from his damaged plane and instead hit the water just beside a small American naval transfer boat moving between two ships. The narrative is extremely simple. And horrific. Dodsons next lines to his wife are these:
We are going to fight and work our heads off to win this war. But we are fighting because we bungled the last peace, and we must never let it happen again. They cant tell me war is a fine and noble thing. I wish they could see the difference between the Saturday morning parades at Alameda, and the stench of Kwajalein. General Sherman had no idea how right he was. He said, "War is hell." I heard a blinded veteran of the last war say that, low and bitter. It didnt sound like it reads in print. (296-7)
Dodson, already a twenty-year veteran of merchant marine and navy service, doesnt write these lines to glorify war. His next paragraph, a simple description telling of the transfer of wounded from his ship to a hospital ship, is gripping narrative, a personal story of a wounded man who, it turns out, knew Dodsons brother back home. I cant condense the emotion, the horror, but I can quote Dodsons last sentence in the paragraph: "I hate war" (297). No bold, no italics, no exclamation point. No need for such: the paragraphs narrative implies them all, and more.
Authors at Sea at first seems like anything but anti-war literature. But its reiteration of wars horror grows more insistent as you read it, and its last page brings a sigh of relief that the terrible narratives it contains are at an end. It also concludes the story of the rapid maturation of an entire generation attaining instant adulthood, brought on by events beyond its control.
Shenk selects nonfiction excerpts by writers mostly renowned for their fiction. The authors comprise a Whos Who of American letters in the mid-twentieth century. Essays by Michener, Wouk, Auchincloss, Haley, and others capture the rapid changes in livesthe boredom, the wonder, the hilarity and horrorassociated with routine training and actual combat. The complete collection provides an impressionistic view of the Second World War. While the narrative doesnt reach the hedgerows of Normandy, it lands on the beachheads; while it doesnt describe the fears of infantrymen, it fully captures the terror of near-death experiences of sailors and fliers.
Perhaps the key thing Authors at Sea does is make apparent the passage of time, the rapidity with which America went from vague preparations for war, through Pearl Harbor to Midway Island, to Guadalcanal, Omaha Beach, and Leyte Gulf, to (finally) Tokyo Bay. Lives changed. The world changed. Years later, middle-aged men wrote about their experiences during the war. And now, as those of us who as children listened to the war stories of that generation reach our own middle age, and as we bury the few of those combatants-turned-story-tellers who survived this far, and as we reflect on the cataclysmic world of their young manhood and the far more peaceable late Viet Nam and Cold War service of our young adult years, we recognize the gravity the war gave to life in the early 1940s.
Authors at Sea is an impressive collection of the memories of some major writers. These writers, and all the veterans of that war, are slipping away from us. The war itself is becoming cold history, no longer possessed of the flesh-and-blood it had in my youth. Shenks volume becomes a valuable summary of the naval combatants life in World War II. But, suddenly, its also anti-war literaturesomething I never associated, during my upbringing, with World War II or its literary legacy.
Shadow on the White House: Presidents and the Vietnam War, 1945-1975. Edited by David L. Anderson. Lawrence: UP of Kansas, 1993. Pp. 240. $14.95.
Reviewed by G. Dennis Conroy, DePaul University
Vietnam War literatureboth fiction and non-fictionis replete with authors attempting to shed light on haunting and persistent questions from the Vietnam era. How did the United States get involved? Who was responsible? Why did we stay stubbornly entrenched when it became painfully obvious that the war was a lost cause? Why did mass demonstrations and other fierce manifestations of widespread public opposition to the war fail to hasten the end of the bloody struggle? These and a host of other vexing questions from the war are addressed from the perspective of presidential leadership in Shadow on the White House (1993), edited by David L. Anderson, chair of the Department of History and Political Science at the University of Indianapolis.
This compilation of essays by Anderson and other noted presidential scholars provides superbly researched and richly detailed accounts of how six successive US Presidents grappled unsuccessfully with the war in Vietnam. The extensively footnoted essays succinctly summarize the broad spectrum of strategic thinking that informed and guided crucial presidential decisions that determined the fate of Americas involvement in Southeast Asia. Under Andersons editorial tutelage, each of the authors demonstrates why we must look specifically to the presidents to discern the reasons why the United States intervened in Vietnam in the 1940s and stayed involved for thirty years. As an examination of presidential policy during the Vietnam era, Shadow on the White House is a superb companion piece for those studying traditional biographical profiles of Presidents Truman through Ford in relation to the subject of the Vietnam War.
Anderson anchors his basic premise that "the Vietnam War was manifestly a presidential war" in the fact that the war "was conducted without a congressional declaration of war" (1). One reason given why Congress did not assume a more dominant role relates to the historical pattern of chief executives who inexorably enlarged the office of the presidency. So powerful was this trend that government policies and initiatives came to be identified personally with the president. Anderson notes that "In no area of public life has the identification of presidents with particular policies been more apparent that in foreign affairs" (4). Historical precedents cited include Washingtons Neutrality Proclamation from the early republic, up to the presidential "doctrines" of contemporary presidents (4-5). After World War II, at the time Truman initiated US involvement in Vietnam, presidential power was at its apex and foreign policy was firmly guided by the executive branch. Anderson notes that at the time "Through new and powerful executive instrumentssuch as the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Joint Chiefs of Staffpresidents initiated and managed foreign policy" (6).
In concise language, the authors trace the presidential conduct of the ever-widening war. Robert J. McMahon, Professor of History at the University of Florida, examines how the Truman administration initiated the fateful first presidential steps to support the French campaign against the Communist led insurgency in Indo-China. According to McMahon, US foreign policy linked opposition to Ho Chi Minhs resistance against the colonial French within the context of "broader regional and global foreign policy goals in a deepening Cold War" (21). He points out that the Joints Chiefs of Staff had insisted on, and Truman concurred with, a policy that stipulated aid to France would not include the deployment of American troops in Southeast Asia (36). McMahon posits that this policy, embraced equally by the State Department and White House officials, presented a fundamental and unresolvable contradiction in US policy: "[I]f Southeast Asia was so vital that its loss to communism would deal a severe blow to the US National Security, how could the United States accept any limits on its actions?" (36). In time, this strategic contradiction proved to be one of the most enduring and controversial dilemmas of the entire Vietnam conflict as the debate raged on as to whether too much or too little force was being used in Vietnam. McMahon concludes that the Truman administration never reconciled strategy with tactics (38).
David Andersons assessment of President Eisenhowers core policy decisions on Vietnam revealed that Eisenhowers fundamental stance mirrored the Truman administrations prohibitions against the use of US troops and the conviction that a non-communist Vietnam was of vital strategic importance for the United States (43). During his eight years in office he successfully kept the US from engaging its own troops, but Anderson concludes that President Eisenhowers wholehearted support of the unpopular South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem put newly elected Kennedy in a position of having to continue support of Diem or risk discrediting nearly a decade of US policy in the region (58-9). Gary R. Hess, Distinguished Research Professor at Bowling Green State University, asserts that since Kennedy was assassinated just three weeks after Diem was ousted from office and murdered, we cannot know how Kennedy would have faced the challenges ultimately placed squarely on Lyndon Johnsons shoulders. According to Hess, it is left to vastly divergent historical debate whether Kennedy would have steered the US into a full-scale military engagement, or if he would have managed to end Americas long-term commitment (82).
The most passionate of the essays addresses the controversial leadership style of Lyndon Johnson. In the two chapters this book devotes to Johnson, both George Herring, Professor of History at the University of Kentucky, and Sandra C. Taylor, Professor of History at the University of Utah, conclude that the impatient, expansive Johnson was ill-suited to be a Commander in Chief in a limited war, and that his provincial background did not prepare him for the sophisticated world of world affairs and diplomacy. Taylors commentary on Johnson is unsparing in its intense condemnation: "Johnson was ethnocentric, woefully ignorant of the outside world, and had no experience at all with traditional peasant societies. He did not call the Vietnamese gooks and slopes to their faces, but one can only speculate that he shared much of the mind-set of those who did" (125-6).
Melvin Small, Professor of History at Wayne State University, and Jeffrey Kimball, Professor of History at Miami University, chronicle Richard Nixons handling of the war. Small documents the manner in which Nixon attempted to contain domestic opposition to the war and Kimball focuses on the close collaboration between Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the realm of diplomacy and negotiations with the North Vietnamese. Kimball exhaustively documents Nixons secrecy, noting, "Nixon intended to control his elaborate foreign policy scheme from the White House which meant bypassing the State and Defense Departments" (156). In essence, Nixon ended up virtually micro managing the war.
David Andersons concluding chapter reveals that Gerald Ford came into the presidency with " his long held convictions that US involvement in Vietnam was correct and that US goals could be achieved by . . . extending material resources to the beleaguered South Vietnamese and Cambodian governments" (187). After he left office, Ford maintained his belief that the US could have won the war. Anderson notes that "Fords postmortems are an example of what scholars have since labeled the win thesis namely that with more power . . . the United States could have prevailed" (203). Andersons summation is that all presidents from Truman to Ford believed that "US intervention in Vietnam was merited and could be successful" (203). The debate continues between those who hold the "win thesis" versus those who contend no amount of outside force would have altered the eventual outcome of the war.
Regrettably, the essays do not examine the roles of the closest presidential aids that had critically important roles in the conduct of the war. However, Anderson offers an excellent section of suggested reading at the end of the book for those interested in pursuing a broader analysis of leadership during the Vietnam War.
Vietnam: Reflexes and Reflections. The National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum. Edited by Eve Sinaiko. New York: Abrams. Pp. 256. $45.00.
Reviewed by Michael Evans-Smith, Denver, Colorado
Every day I have to work because the truce I have with darkness is delicate and peace requires constant maintenance.
Richard Bartow
Vietnam is a loss of dignity, identity, and pride. It becomes a struggle from withinfrom the hunting of human lives.
Ulysses Marshall
As the literary canon of the Vietnam War continues to grow, the impact can be felt through the poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa, Kevin Bowen, Bruce Weigl, Nguyen Ba Chung, and Nguyen Quang Thieu; the photography of Horst Faas, Tim Page, and Sean Flynn; the short fiction of Ly Thi Lan, Ho Anh Thai, and Nguyen Vu. The writings of Tobias Wolff, Andre Dubus, Tim OBrien, Albert French, Louise Erdrich, Robert Olen Butler, and Grace Paley also lend insight to our feelings about the war. Now, this list of artistic explorations must include the mesmerizing Vietnam: Reflexes and Reflections, a book veterans and their extended families can turn to in their efforts to understand the personal transformations that took place in Vietnam.
In surveying these works of art, I am filled with despair. The works seem so alien and yet so personal to my own experience of war and my response to the loss of life and the nobility of sacrifice. Excerpts from diaries, letters, and other writings scream from the murky edges of memory where spiders eat. This extraordinary collection includes a wide range of expressions by visual artists who served in the theater of Vietnam.
The titles of some works are themselves indictments of service. War Songs: Safewater Buoy by Grady Estle Harp, (black matte glazed porcelain vessels) are incised and inscribed with phrases such as: "That night after waving goodbye from the helicopter I sat and chuckled over your jokes while they killed you." Dare to Enter 1965 by Joseph Clarence Fornelli (vitelline membranes on vellum painted with C-ration coffee and Chinese watercolors) is a querulous expression of grievance behind the red mist like the bread and wine at Christs Last Supper. Abandoned by John McManus, (an alabaster and bronze robed monklike figure) is a renumeration of faith, emaciated, and unlike Dante, waiting to receive the counterbalancing intercession of three blessed women, this work shows that a soldier, and a child can be equally reprehensible whether they are the oppressor or the oppressed. Ritual Suicide Mask by Randolph Harmes (a gauze, paint, and wood mask) resembles herpes-simplexed ninth plague of Egypt; it conveys the palpable darkness that lasted three days, except there is no Moses, through whom God manifested his powers for restoring veterans. The apocalyptic Portrait of a Soldier After War by Cao Ba Minh intones, "My works are washed in the blood and tears of sufferingall the baggage of humanitys shame," like the vinegar raised to Christs lips.
There is nothing dreamlike in the artworks accompanying narratives but they are words that roar past the Devil and seek revenge in our consciousness. Christ was crucified, but in Ralph "Tripper" Siriannis charcoal Crucifixion/Nam Christs face is inside the tattered camouflaged shirt he wears, so that it becomes a shroud like the Shroud of Turin. Concertina and barbed wire crisscross the site of pain and suffering. This is not Golgotha but Hamburger Hill and Dismas is not beside him asking, "Remember me Lord."
With this book and the permanent exhibition which is housed in Chicago, work, time, space, identity, and body are given a small corner of comfort and freedom in a very cold crater. This art allows those of us who served a chance to trace the veins of progress in our rehabilitation, and away from the fear of night alone.
After Christs ascension to Heaven, the Holy Spirit descended to the disciples on Pentecost with the sound of a rushing wind in the form of tongues of flame, infusing them with his power. Vietnam: Reflexes and Reflections is a literary catechism, a religious education, and a book of common prayer.
Since the release of Vietnam: Reflexes and Reflections, David Alan Sessions, Goodbye Vietnam, Cleveland Wright, We Regret to Inform You, and Richard Russell Yohnka This Is How You Died (The End) have themselves died. They faced the challenges of lifes truths. Lest we forget. And: "The gap on the white wall of the gallery reminds us that at the center of any exhibition or book about this war and its art lies the empty space that can never be filled: the missing art work by the artist who did not live to make it."
The National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum is located at 1801 S. Indiana Street, Chicago IL 60616; (312) 326-0270.


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DeKALB, Ill. - The Northern Illinois women's basketball team has hired former player Debbie (Teske) Whitman as Director of Basketball Operations (DOBO), Head Coach Kathi Bennett announced Friday.
Bennett and Co. could not be more thrilled to have Whitman on staff as she was a part of a prosperous run for the NIU women's basketball program from 1990-93 that saw the Huskies make two NCAA Tournament appearances and a WNIT appearance.
While also being co-owner with her husband Bruce of Whitman's Catering in DeKalb for the last 15 years, the former Huskie has been heavily involved in the coaching aspect of basketball since her playing days ended.
"Without a doubt, we hit the jackpot hiring Debbie Whitman," said Bennett, who guided the Huskies last season to their first two-win Mid-American Conference Tournament appearance since 2007 in just her second year at the helm. "Her community ties are unreal - I walked around with her for Ladies Night Out and I think I met more people than I have since I've been here. She knows a lot of people not only through her business but through her work at DeKalb High School. She did a good job of coaching and creating tradition at DeKalb High School.
"She has incredible energy. She's relationship driven. She has good relationships with her former players. That stuff means a lot. I know she loves NIU and had a great experience playing here. I want her to share that with all of our players. They had great success, reaching the NCAA Tournament. That's something we are striving for. She can share how they did that. Our staff and players are blessed to have her with us. We are really excited to have her on board."
Whitman, a native of Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., is just as excited to be returning to her alma mater.
"First of all, it's a great opportunity to come back to the institution that I played at and graduated from," Whitman said. "I honestly never thought it'd be possible. I started out as a high school coach and had aspirations to move forward from there and moved to the Division III level. I wasn't seeking out a change but when Coach Bennett called me I was shocked initially. As we talked about it, I realized this is where I want to be.
"I truly believe that Coach Bennett is going to turn this program around. I have seen what she's done in her first two years. For me, the opportunity to learn from her was a big factor in my decision."
The strengths that Whitman brings to the table for NIU are sound organizational skills, stellar DeKalb-Sycamore community relations, and over 13 years of coaching experience.
"I've lived here for over 20 years and know a lot of people in the community," said Whitman. "That's something I'm hoping will be a positive for our program here - get more people out to games, get the community involved, like they were when I played here.
"Being organized is something that I thrive on. It's how I keep myself and life in order. From my coaching days, I really feel strongly about building relationships with players. I really like to get to know the kids off the court, build a relationship and trust with them. Having been a coach at the high school and Division III level, I can help the staff by taking care of the little things behind the scenes so the coaches can concentrate on coaching the kids."
Prior to joining the Huskies, Whitman was an assistant coach at D-III North Central College last season. Mentoring, scouting, recruiting, arranging travel plans, and coaching were among her responsibilities with the Cardinals.
Where Whitman really made her impact was at DeKalb High School, where she was the head coach of the varsity girl's basketball team and directed the 7th-12th grade programs from 2005-10, and served as an assistant from 2003-05. Posting an impressive 95-51 record with the Barbs, Whitman led the team to a conference championship, regional championship, the program's first sectional championship, and advanced to the Sweet 16 of the IHSA playoffs. In 2005-06, she was named IBCA District Four Coach of the Year and was chosen to coach the Rockford Rising Stars All-Star team. She also raised over $40,000 in private donations for the program.
Additionally, many of her players went on to play at all levels of NCAA basketball and she conducted camps full of over 150 campers each summer.
Before getting into coaching, Whitman was a camp director for Camp 22 Skill Development from 1998-2005. She helped teach the fundamentals of the game in private lessons and large camps to boys and girls of all ages.
Immediately after graduating from NIU with a bachelor of arts in corporate/organizational communications in 1993, she became program director for the DeKalb Park District from 1993-96.
As a Huskie player, Whitman was a key contributor during a fantastic three-year run in which NIU played in the 1991 WNIT and the 1992 and 1993 NCAA Tournaments. To get to those tournaments, the Huskies won the 1992 North Star Conference tournament and the 1993 Mid-Continent Conference regular season championship and tournament. She averaged 7.4 points, 2.4 rebounds, 1.4 assists, and 1.25 steals per game during her career at NIU. Whitman's career 82.2 free throw percentage still stands as the third best in Huskie history.
Whitman has been inducted into the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2011, NIU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2005 as part of the 1989-90 team induction, and the Assumption High School (Wis.) Hall of Fame in 2004 as she was a four-time Honorable Mention All-American choice by USA Today.


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A persistent, mysterious "oil sheen" in the Gulf of Mexico near the site of BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster grew to more than seven-miles long and one-mile wide during a recent stretch of calm seas, based on aerial observations made by a former NASA physicist turned environmental activist.
"We had maybe three or four days (of calm weather) and that's all it took for the stuff to build up considerably," Bonny Schumaker, the physicist who now runs the non-profit On Wings of Care, which makes regular flights over regions of the Gulf affected by the 2010 oil spill.
In a flight report from Jan. 27 posted on the group's website, she described the oily expanse as "huge."
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Looking Forward:Idaho hosts its first home meets of the 2014 season this weekend with the Idaho Collegiate on Friday and the Idaho Open on Saturday. Events begin Friday at 11 a.m. (PT) and kick off at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday. The Vandals competed in last week's opener at the WSU Open with a small squad of runners, this weekend several individuals will make their season debuts.
Historically Speaking:This is the second year the Vandals will host the Idaho Collegiate. Last year, the team totaled up nine individual wins and an NCAA top-10 time. Current senior Karlene Hurrel tallied two wins in the 60m and 200m while sophomore teammate Jerrica Hauck cleared a career-best mark in the pole vault to win the event. On the men's side, sophomore Drew Thompson notched a career-best in the 60m hurdles to win the even while junior Matt Sullivan won the pole vault and senior Kyle Rothwell hit the winning mark in the shot put. Last time Idaho hosted the Idaho Open two years ago, the team tailed two individual victories and multiple career-best marks.
A Quick Recap:The Idaho men led the way at the WSU Open last weekend to kick off the 2014 indoor season. Idaho newcomer Emmanuel Panchol produced strong marks with an individual victory in the triple jump and a second-place finish in the high jump. While senior teammate Andrew Bloom took first in the 400m, junior Matt Sullivan earned an individual victory in the pole vault and senior Andrey Levkiv took the first-place spot in the shot put with a career-best mark.


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I want to see how my users use the internet bandwidth. I have around 50 Users in the network and I am using a checkpoint edge series firewall as a gateway for the internet. Checkpoint does not provide any report related to bandwidth utilization so I am looking for a another server to place between the firewall and the LAN switch to monitor the bandwidth(Sever monitors the interfaces while forwarding traffic back and forth).
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Two new Beatles CDs with audio documentaries on the Beatles at Shea Stadium and meeting up with Elvis Presley are headed for record shelves in June, distributor MVD announced in an advance releases bulletin March 16.
"The Beatles At Shea Stadium Described by Erupting Fans!" is a CD reissue of a vinyl album released in the '60s. "The Beatles come on and there is a stupendous roar from the girls as they react to their heroes," the description of the CD reads. Running time is 30 minutes with lots of screaming girls and no Beatles music.
"When the Beatles Met Elvis: The Untold Story of Their Entangled Lives," also to be released June 3 according to the distributor, is a three-disc set written and read by Chris Hutchins that appears to be a dual biography of both Elvis and the Beatles. According to advance listings, the three-CD set will feature 17 chapters. The chapter titles include "Vendetta in Vegas," "The Last Pre-Beatle Christmas," "Jayne Mansfield Can't Help It," "My Audience With the King," "The Beatles Meet Elvis – Uncensored" and "The Final Hours At Graceland."
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Diversification and hippies with beads
Recently at work a coworker was in the break room talking about how they have a "fully diversified portfolio." Because I am a smart ass, I asked them how I could convert my partially diversified portfolio into a full diversified portfolio. She of course had no idea how I could do so because, well, she had no idea what she was talking about. So I thought maybe it would be a good time to give a good overview about what exactly this means.
The basic idea is very simple: invest your money into a bunch of different places so that you don't have all your eggs in one basket. To take it a step further it generally means spreading your investments around into different investment areas such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, money markets, gold, real estate, and the hippies down the street selling beads. If I were you, Id stick to the first few.
There are a few different types of diversification:
Horizontal Diversification:
This is when you diversify between same type investments. So this is like buying stock in Microsoft and Enovia.
Vertical Diversification
Vertical Diversification is the investment between different types of investment. It can be a really broad diversification, like diversifying between bonds and stocks, or a more narrowed diversification, like diversifying between stocks of different branches. This gives much more protection against changing economic conditions or say the collapse of the stock market.
As a general rule the upside of diversifying is that you have protection from losing all of your investment should something go wrong with one company or one sector. The downside is that the average of all the investment parts will always be below the return of the top performer. Stocks have the greatest upside, but also can have a huge downside where as some things such as bonds tend to be lower performers but stable. Just one more thing to think about.


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A review of Mayra Rivera
Flesh is indeterminate. It flows, changes over time, and is consumed and transformed. It becomes the reality of rich spiritual encounter.
This morning, I couldn't wait to open the New York Times to find out how the Republican debate went with Donald Trump out of the picture. Who would shine in his absence? What was the general tenor? Cordial or bombastic? Dignified or scrappy? I don't watch the debates on television.
Do most American preachers stay silent on public issues to keep their congregations happy?
Corruption has gone too far. The righteous must break away. Hope now rests with a holy remnant that honors foundational texts.
The message sounds familiar. A church schism? No, mounting calls for secession from the United States.
Revelation 21:1–6a; John 11:32-44
Many churches, including mine, will mark All Saints Day this Sunday. Of course, politics will also be on everyone's mind. At first it seemed to me that the two have little in common, but then several connections occurred to me.
To most American voters in 1972, Democratic presidential nominee Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota was way too liberal on many issues—and he was beaten badly by incumbent Richard Nixon. But to many fellow Methodists he was also a churchgoing humanitarian who in the 1960s directed the new Food for Peace Program and a forward-looking politician informed by the Social Gospel.
Political leaders in the tiny Buddhist nation of Bhutan have announced a nearly six-month ban on all public religious activities ahead of the upcoming elections, citing the Himalayan nation's constitution that says "religion shall remain above politics."
How do we respond when a good cause becomes a fad?
Social media can reduce activism to a fad—something that we take part in because a particular Twitter hashtag is trending, a video has become viral or a Facebook cause has become popular. It can ignore the hard work that has been taking place over decades and discount a long-term strategy that a community might have.
John 15:9–17
I have found myself dreading Facebook lately. With the general election beginning to churn, the competing posts are out: "Evidence of Obama's socialist conspiracy!" "Republicans plan to inspect every woman's womb!" Some are rather scary while others I quietly cheer; still others simply draw me into grief over how little Jesus seems apparent in any of it.
We could avoid all sorts of nasty fights, Stephen Jay Gould argues, if we would stop expecting science to provide validating evidence for religious dogmas or biblical events. Nor ought we to turn to religion to resolve questions of a properly scientific nature. He wants no more natural theology, no more "anthropic principle," no more attempts to find scientific confirmation for religious beliefs, and no more fundamentalist "creation science." In short, "science gets the age of rocks, and religion the rock of ages; science studies how the heavens go, religion how to go to heaven."
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Apparently there's a newspaper in the next town over from Berkeley and they have a cactus that blooms so it's featured in the newspaper every year. They don't know what it is, but they don't stop over here and ask us, now do they? Reporters should call us you know, we'd answer all their questions for them.
Long-time residents know that the plants bloom once a year, subject to the vagaries of weather and traffic. At one time, there were more cacti in the group with multi-colored flowers, but so far this year we just have a single bloom atop one plant.
Gardeners will probably know the names of the plants, but for most of us, the beauty is in the patterns and the blooms.
Geez, don't reporters have phones anymore?
Not sure what variety of succulent this might be, but it's an interesting visual effect.
Oh, the humanity. Should we tell them what they are?
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mr_subjunctive Says:
July 27th, 2011 at 3:27 pm
No. Didn't you read? "The beauty is in the patterns and the blooms," not in, you know, knowing names and crap, which is for pointy-headed intellectuals or something. What do you think the purpose of a newspaper is? To inform people about things? Psshh.
Amy Says:
July 27th, 2011 at 7:43 pm
Nope. Let 'em crawl like the rest of us. =0)
Jenn Says:
July 28th, 2011 at 12:41 pm
Heh. I like Amy's answer. If they wanted to know, they'd pick up a dang book. Duh.
This is a NEWSPAPER?
I weep.
Membris Khan Says:
July 29th, 2011 at 4:17 am
The plant at the bottom is an Agave. I don't know wich specie, but it's an Agave
Kelly Says:
July 30th, 2011 at 8:19 am
Ha! I read this online (El Cerrito Patch) and all I thought at the time was, I gotta get over there to check out that Cactus Corner on Arlington! Your take on the article made me laugh.


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Grateful Dead
Winterland Arena - October 16, 1974
Winterland Arena
October 16, 1974
San Francisco, CA US
Bob Weir's 27th birthday - birthday celebration before the encore
Set List:Bertha
Jack Straw
Tennessee Jed
Cumberland Blues
Me and Bobby McGee
It Must Have Been the Roses
Mexicali Blues
Row Jimmy
Beat it on Down the Line
Ship of Fools
Playin' in the Band
Wharf Rat
Eyes of the World
Big River
Scarlet Begonias
Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
Uncle John's Band
Johnny B. Goode
U.S. Blues
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doctorK, mark_mumper, brianfuji, deschamp52, nitecat, Canady, ziphler, andychatfield, Garybegd, foolio, micshe9, stevenmorley, remert, jerryskid1974, UpTil4, Doctorpat, garyd54, Pax, chicosez, winterland12, johnburton, Curticus, Katimae, mcrosno, BearVandal, LadyoftheIsland, jonod, labozo, moses, Uptown Tommy D, Rainbowjohn, shiney mike, hmdavis, kgetta, fenerio, ndw, deadburg, jimbirish, hubwolf, musickatman, westking101, spaceck, Gypsy Cowgirl, Timberline Rose, Scarf-Juggler, geoffgould, Grateful Bill, carlaplattwatercolors, spinyn, Llabmiko, tigerstrikes, docks of the city, grt4dead, Roserunner, wolff, misujry, GratefulSteve, DMG, ram, JayLif, drchampagne, Zomby D Wulf, swanrob, tonstar, stlhog, poorboy, zygster, tcrawford, DarkStar-TheOtherOne, Jack O. Hartz, bear7140, mandala, Bruce Rogers
I saw three of these shows, the 16th, 18th and 20th. I still have "The Last One" ticket from the 20th. What a way to celebrate 12th grade!
My fourth Dead show. Night number one of the 5 shows I attended in this 6 show run.
I just watched the movie and during the scenes where the stage is being set up and brokendown you see the stones tounge hanging up there. Does anyone know why was it there? Check Out My Orignal Music at myspace.com/salaversano
The Stones had played at Winterland as a sort of apology for Altamont if I remember correctly. Anyway, Bill Graham had the Stones tongue and the Dead logo hanging from the rafters for several years running.
Is there anyone here, or does anyone know about any of the Heads in the movie. Does the "This is fucked up man this fuckin' film man!" guy own a copy of this on DVD? And what about the hottie dancing in the hallway during "Casey Jones" does she have a teenage daught that would be totaly embaressed by that. And what about the fellows in line out front? Where they on line for tickets, or were they waiting to get in because the shows were general admision? Check Out My Orignal Music at myspace.com/salaversano
A school night, still, I can never quite be sure. Set looks right, but, where is the Ned and Phil part?
Tunes I knew then were Truckin' Johnny B. Goode.
I thought the red white and blue thing on the piano was a flag.
Watched while an operator came to aim the spotlight at the mirrorball.
Oh yes I was in dead heaven, by this time I had decided to go to all the shows I could. Tickets were cheaper then, too.


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Walker's Pace: Hasay Honored by Pac-12
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Jordan Hasay was named the Pac-12's cross country women's athlete of the year for the second consecutive season. Here's the recap from the league office:
Hailing from Arroyo Grande, Calif., Jordan Hasay is the Conference's Women's Athlete of the Year for the second-consecutive year. Placing third at the Pac-12 Championships, she went on to win the NCAA West Regional with a time of 19:44, her second-straight win at the event. She nearly brought home top honors at the NCAA Championships, but was edged out by just .6 seconds to place second at the national meet with a time of 19:41.8. Hasay was the league's 2009 Newcomer of the Year. She is the first Duck to win Women's Athlete of the Year in back-to-back seasons and the second claim the honor twice. Hasay was also recently named the USTFCCCA West Region Women's Athlete of the Year for the second-straight year.
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Q&A: Limegrover refining Gophers' attack
It's a slow, steady process, but the Minnesota offense is coming on as Jerry Kill continues to put his mark on the program entering his third year in the Twin Cities. Offensive coordinator and offensive line coach Matt Limegrover's attack ranked 10th in the Big Ten in 2012 (321.4 ypg). And the offense was ninth in scoring (22.1 ppg).


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With today's article I will have published my 300th article about the Motorcycle Lifestyle. A huge contributor to my articles is a Scorpion MC member, South Dallas Chapter.
I have always been able to tap my husband's brain to confirm technical details about the outlaw biker culture, but once in a while, he'll say "Check it out with Country before you publish anything.
So it's very apropos for me to say a great big "Thank you Country!"
Today's story was taken from Volume 3 of his trilogy of "Evolution of an Outlaw Biker". When Country did time in Federal Prison, he rubbed shoulders with a lot of political people that we've all heard about on our national news. And believe me, some of them are jaw droppers.
Sit back and enjoy today's episode:
The guards would bring in the inmates from the hole and let them shower in our showers. One saw me reading a Flying magazine and began striking up a conversation with me, saying he was a pilot too and we would swap magazines.
Later he brought me a clip off the internet showing him testifying in court against one of Clinton's top aides about them being involved in the guns for drugs to the Contras. (Vol. #1). I remembered when this happened. He had been one of Barry Seal's co-pilots.
For those too young to remember, Barry was one of the drug runners that got caught and was put to work hauling the dope and guns for the CIA, DEA, etc.. They used him up and set him up and the Colombians killed him. There was a movie made about it years later.
Well, like the saying goes, I was born at night, but not last night. The Feds had always thought I had hauled dope in my rental plane. Never did. As a matter of fact during my bond hearing the prosecutor told the judge, "Don't bond him; he is a flight risk."
The judge asked him why he thought that.
His answer was, "Well, your honor, he is a pilot." Everyone, even the judge fell out over that.
Getting back to the inmate pilot, he gave me his outside phone number and said, "When we get out, maybe we can go flying sometime."
Yeah, right. As soon as he walked out, I shredded the number and threw it in the trash can.
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Israeli Women Killed in Bolivia Accident
Two Israeli women have died in a jeep accident in Bolivia.
By Maayana Miskin
First Publish: 7/27/2012, 1:32 PM
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Two Israeli women were killed Thursday in a jeep accident in Bolivia. Their families have been notified of the deaths.
Israel's closest consulate -- in Lima, Peru -- is assisting in bringing the bodies back to Israel.
Earlier Thursday, 18-year-old Guy Hendel died during a trip to Andorra. Hendel, of Kibbutz Lochmei Haghetaot, was touring with several friends from various kibbutzim.
The cause of his death is not yet clear.
Earlier in the week, 21-year-old Hadas Ben-Shushan of Petach Tikva was killed in a rock slide while hiking in India. Her funeral was held Friday in the Segula cemetery in her hometown.


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Mother Nature: Sam, The White Cat With Black Eyebrows
This is Sam. Sam is an all white cat with a black tail and eyebrows. Sure they're not very good looking brows, but what did you expect from a cat? They're the kind of eyebrows you'd expect to see on a girl who's plucked hers to the point they're not there anymore and has to draw them on but has completely forgotten what the f*** an eyebrow is supposed to look like. I know a girl like that, you know what we call her? "From Jersey." Haha, close -- the Joker. I'm kidding we call her Allison because that's her name. Hopefully she's not reading today.
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Thanks to my pal Terry, whose gecko has EYELASHES, so take that, Sam! He is my Godson.


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Berger Featured in The Princeton Packet
Princeton's Berger Setting Example
Jashvina Shah, The Princeton Packet
August 9, 2013
Princeton University men's ice hockey captain Jack Berger leans back in a chair at The Small World of Coffee on Witherspoon Street. His Macbook Pro rests next to a disposable cup of coffee on a small, circular table.
Berger, who's played hockey since he was four, spends a couple of moments thinking of his first memory.
"My coach, ironically was named Tiger, a red-haired guy, and I just remember getting on the ice and I just fell flat on my face," Berger said. "As soon as I stepped on."
It's January, and the 22-year-old puts his laptop away, explaining Princeton has finals after vacation. He said he's spent much of his post-winter break time at the Pliny Fisk Library, studying for his exams.
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