Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old bridegroom was already dreaming of cutting a swath through battlefield and boudoir. The 14-year-old bride thought only of venerating church, husband and home. On April 11, 1774, as arranged by two of France's first families, Gilbert Motier de La Fayette married Adrienne d'Ayen. The bride had barely left the altar when she was forced to begin a lifelong struggle to preserve her marriage to the soldier who became a hero of the American Revolution, a prime mover of the French Revolution, and a roving gallant who collected mistresses like medals...
...pioneering tetralogy-on which he labored, heedless of the paradox that as his reputation has grown, his influence has diminished. Now, in an intricate synthesis of his past output, Sociologist-Art Critic-Litterateur-Town Planner Mumford has written a densely composed history of that struggle on its most bloody battlefield-the city. The interpretation may not be fresh, but simply as a Portable Mumford (if 576 pages of narrative, 56 pages of annotated bibliography, and 114 pages of photographs and extended captions can be called portable) The City in History is a remarkable achievement: a scholarly chronicle on a noble...
...their own sake. But he is fond of the statement made in 1954 by General Walter Bedell Smith, then Under Secretary of State: "It will be well to remember that diplomacy has rarely been able to gain at the conference table what cannot be gained or held on the battlefield." Says the President: "I'm interested in what our objectives are, not the military struggle." Despite the setbacks in his first major crisis, he has determined on one single-minded answer to the single-minded challenge he reads into Nikita Khrushchev: the U.S. must win the cold...
...acting and the photography combine to produce a sufficiently convincing portrayal of simple men at war, as when the terrified colt stumbles about the battlefield, the film gives an effective picture of life dancing innocently with death. But the attempts at artistry tend to be as heavy handed as the choir that wades in when the wind blows across the steppes...
...population is worried. So we appealed to SEATO to put the people at their ease." Well, did the government want SEATO to intervene or not? "Of course not," said Nhouy. "If SEATO intervened, there would be a world war, and nobody wants that. Laos would become a battlefield...