The Face of Battle reviewed by John Keegan
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt summarizes Keegan’s inquiry into what battle feels like tracing Agincourt Waterloo and the Somme through an inquisitional lens. He credits Keegan with vivid detail yet notes fault in applying old critiques to modern warfare and suggests broader impact for military history.
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John Keegan
Viking
N.Y
Keegan
Agincourt
France
Henry V
Charles d’Albert
London
Waterloo
Somme
S.L.A. Marshall
Clemenceau
Kitty Wells First Country Music Queen Star of 1950s era
NASHVILLE national profile of Kitty Wells the pioneering female star known as The Queen of Country Music. Highlights include her 1952 to 1960s chart dominance, heart and gospel songs, and the reply song It Wasnt God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels. She notes shifts to younger dynamos and reflects on retirement plans and family values.
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Nashville, Tenn
God
Hank Williams
Loretta Lynn
Dolly Parton
Lynn Anderson
Tammy Wynette
The Promised Land Film Show at Green Mountain Arts Gallery
Miguel Littin's The Promised Land screens tonight at 8 at 198 North St. The epic folk tale tracks Chile's 1930s upheaval leading to a short lived socialist republic and the Palmilla cooperative massacre. Donation of 2 dollars requested.
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the Promised Land
Miguel Littin
Latin America
Jackal
Nahueltoro
Companero Presidente
Green Mountain Arts Collaborative
North St
Chile
Americas
Jose Duran
Palmilla
Huique
Allende
Outsiders inside Vermont expanded edition released
Vermont voices from Champlain to Alistair Cooke enrich an enlarged anthology edited by T D Seymour Bassett. Phoenix Publishing redesigned the volume from Canaan New Hampshire with an afterword by Sheafe Satterwaite. New poems by Updike Smith and Taggard accompany emigrant farm recollections and Yankee bargaining tales amid land-use reflections.
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Canaan
N.H
Vermont
Champlain
Wilderness
Alistair Cooke
Newfane
T. D. Seymour Bassett
Sheafe Satterwaite
John Updike
William Jay Smith
Genevieve Taggard
Connecticut
Bassett
Christmas Sing at NASC on Campus Center Deck
North Adams State College Music Club presents the annual Christmas Sing on December 6 at 7 30 p m on the Campus Center deck behind Murdock Hall. Performances by the College Chorale Motets Chauntecleer Madrigal and the College Band directed by Dwight Killam and Walter Getchell lead to a carol sing along with the Band. Roasted chestnuts and hot cider will be served and admission is free.
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North Adams
Mass
North Adams State College Music Club
Murdock Hall
Dwight Killam
Walter Getchell
Peter Pan NBC Special stars Mia Farrow Danny Kaye
TV preview notes Dec 12 NBC coordinated event with Mia Farrow and Danny Kaye in a Peter Pan special. It also highlights Red Buttons hosting The Golden Era of Silents and contrasts viewpoints from rich and poor, soldiers and missionaries, and casual tourists. Bassett curates Vermontiana writings at the University of Vermont, resident in Burlington.
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Mia Farrow
Danny Kaye
Rudyard Kipling
Vermont
Wilbur
University of Vermont
Bassett
Burlington
Titanic salvage fantasy author predicts surface raises Titanic
W I P I C S U S S L E R C U S S L E R says in a UPI interview that the Titanic could be recovered intact in the 1980s. His Raise the Titanic novel presents a believable plan, with rights sold for books and a film deal discussed, while noting depth and cold, low-oxygen conditions.
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William D. Laffler
New York
UPI
Atlantic Ocean
Clive Cussler
Cussler
Rocky Mountains
Denver
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