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Vietnamization, Protecting withdrawing American troops. The Nixon doctrine. The words mean ceaseless mass murder, brutal death from American rifles, helicopters, cannon, bombers. They mean total terror over the subcontinent of Indochina. They mean a permanent presence of an American military machine which holds the unchallenged right to strike anywhere at any time to ensure that the Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, and Thais accept American rule...
...properties of wings-mobility, ascension, elevation and refinement of consciousness, power to move freely between Heaven and Earth. All the same, there were difficulties of symbolization, which is why the distinctions that early theologians drew between various levels of angels did not endure in art. The thrones, in their ceaseless orbit around God, were sometimes depicted as winged wheels, whose hubs were studded with eyes-to indicate their power to see into the heart of divine mysteries...
...with that action breaks his silence. But it is then that he most craves isolation, and abandons her. He is finally seen walking back to their house, then wavering, then walking away, then wavering, as if he were consigned forever to crucial indecision. It is a life of ceaseless dread, a tragedy deprived of nobility...
...nightfall, colored lights twinkled in the capital's trees, fireworks illuminated its skies, and spotlights played on a huge portrait suspended from a blimp. Coinciding with the civilian celebrations was a dazzling worldwide show of strength by the Soviet navy and air force. After a year of almost ceaseless drumbeating, the 100th anniversary of Lenin's birth had arrived at last, and Vladimir Ilyich was being given...
Disastrous Marriage. The Russell-United Artists version of the truth, largely supported by scholars, is that Tchaikovsky's homosexuality caused him ceaseless anguish and prevented the consummation of any close relationships with women. One scene in Russell's The Lonely Heart shows Tchaikovsky and the rich dilettante Vladimir Shilovsky in bed together. The film suggests that Shilovsky's possessiveness and vanity drove the composer into his disastrous marriage with the neurotic (and eventually mad) Antonina Milyukova...