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Significantly, the N.P.C.'s key choices strongly represented the kind of professionalism and party regularity that was valued before the heady experimentalism of the Cultural Revolution. Confirmed at the apex of both the party and the government, the three will almost surely promote moderate policies. Concretely, that should mean the continuation of detente in foreign affairs and a domestic emphasis on building the economy rather than on campaigns for ideological purification...
...have got the best of the bargain. Unlike Chiang Ching, who is a member of the Politburo but holds no office in the government, Wang Hung-wen has no independent power base. Some experts believe that his elevation was a token; the leftists got represen tation at the apex of the party but little increase in real power...
...great painting. But it is quite unforgettable, suffused by apprehension. Salome is less a dancing girl than a priestess, absorbed in her solipsistic gesture, gliding on point across the inlaid floor. In the brooding Herod, the standing executioner, the vista of Moorish arches and sifting gloom, one sees the apex of the kind of sensibility that in the hands of a Cecil B. DeMille would be coarsened to death. Every inch of the surface glitters with an enameled vitality, rigid and sparkling. Moreau's favorite theme, that of fatality and evil incarnate in women, was also...
Faulkner's decaying Old South lurks ominously in the imagination, stronger than his characters' memories of the vainglorious days of the South's apex. For what he describes is not the dissolution of Old South pride but its consummation. In Flags in the Dust this description takes on violent proportions as he writes of the demise of the Sartoris family...
...standards, by any other rational standard it is extremely difficult to believe that he did not know of it or encourage it. He was warned early of cover-up activities undertaken by his closest aides; he then professed total unawareness for some nine months, despite his position at the apex of a tightly organized reporting system...