标题: Secretary Chuck Hagel and Chief Martin Dempsey on USS Cowpens & Liaoning [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 12-19-2013 16:03 标题: Secretary Chuck Hagel and Chief Martin Dempsey on USS Cowpens & Liaoning Department of Defense Press Briefing by Secretary Hagel and General Dempsey in the Pentagon Briefing Room. US Department of Defense, Dec 19, 2013. www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=5345
My comment:
(a) Read only the portion that deals with “China.”
(b) Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin E Dempsey says, “As far as the Chinese aircraft carrier, aircraft -- carrier ops are about as complicated an operation as any we conduct. There's actually a great short story by Tom Wolfe you ought to read about -- about carrier operations. It captures it in layman's terms. The point is, they are a long way from being a threat to us with their aircraft carrier.”
(i) The “ops” in the sentence China’s “aircraft -- carrier ops are about as complicated an operation as any we conduct” is short for “operations.”
(ii)
(A) Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauve_Gloves_%26_Madmen,_Clutter_%26_Vine
(a 1976 book by Tom Wolfe; The longest essay [in the book, which is a medley], however, is "The Truest Sport: Jousting with Sam and Charlie," about life aboard an aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1967. Wolfe writes about the personnel of the aircraft in heroic terms
(B) Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine[;] by Tom Wolfe[;] Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. www.tomwolfe.com/MauveGloves.html
(Read an Excerpt”)
Quote:
"Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine proves again that Wolfe is a brilliant observer of style who is also a master stylist. He shows, also, the range of his gifts-he can write about aerial combat over North Vietnam ('The Truest Sport: Jousting with Sam and Charlie') with as much vividness as he can about the stratosphere of Society.
review: "'Mr Wolfe tackles all sorts of subjects ranging from life on an aircraft carrier (brilliantly described) to the goings-on at a convention of National Enquirer freelance writers . . . The master of trivia also offers an underlying theme in his essays and stories: the enormous gap (as he perceives it) between the intellectuals' negative view of America and the positive reality.' -Roger Ricklefs, The Wall Street Journal"