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On the sixty-ninth move, obviously exhausted, Spassky blundered.

Also, and for the same reason, war books like “New York’s Fighting Sixty-Ninth” or “Guadalcanal Diary,” and adventure stories like “Treasure Island” and “Robinson Crusoe.”

The armory’s size reflected the Sixty-Ninth’s towering reputation.

The 69th Regiment had been immortalized as the “Fighting Sixty-Ninth,” by Robert E. Lee during the Civil War, and as the “Fighting Irish,” by Joyce Kilmer in his World War I poem.

The two tremendous shows of DeCarava’s black-and-white work currently on view at the David Zwirner Gallery—“Light Break,” at the space on West Nineteenth Street, and “the sound i saw,” on East Sixty-ninth—are the first large-scale exhibitions of his photographs to be mounted in New York since a 1996 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, and the timing couldn’t be more ideal.