Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...internally provided convenient, if feeble, justifications for continued American aid to Greece. But even these lame excuses were brutally destroyed this week when the popularly-elected Cypriot government of Archbishop Makarios was overthrown in a coup directed by the Athens dictatorship and executed by the 650 Greek officers who command the Cyprus National Guard...
...Leadership can be developed and improved by study and training," General Omar Bradley once told a class at the Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kans. "But don't discount experience. Someone may remind you that Napoleon led armies before he was 30 and Alexander the Great died at 33. Alexander might have been even greater if he had lived to an older age and had had more experience. In this respect, I especially like [the] theory that 'judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment...
MARSHALL McLUHAN, Canadian communications philosopher: The late Siegfried Giedion, Swiss art historian and author of Mechanization Takes Command (1948). He was a student of formal structures in the man-made world and instituted the study of forms in everyday life. His book is a study of the death wish in modern man, with specific application to the mechanization of bread baking and meat packing. His most exciting moment was his discovery of the American barber chair...
...notion that the President cannot be heard in the roar of negative stories is of course a myth. The Nixon Administration, any Administration, has vast powers of communication. Nixon can and periodically does command network prime time to present his case. He can hold press conferences as often (or seldom) as he likes, schedule speeches before predictably friendly audiences, grant interviews to sympathetic correspondents. Like his predecessors, he can release information selectively...
...Fine Arts this summer, and if they're all this good the better part of your musical needs will be taken care of for the next two months. Tickets cost $5.50 in advance and $6.50, which isn't too expensive at all considering any one of these acts command that much playing alone at the Garden...