Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...light of the seeming abyss between war and love throughout history. Shakespeare's original theme is that love can also serve to redeem the fallen soldier as it humanizes him. The power of Antony's death seene, as well as Cleopatra's, is provided by the knowledge that command depends on devotion as well as self-esteem. In Troilus and Cressida, a centrifugal labor on love and honor, the rejection of the mundane world seemed a base deception; in Antony and Cleopatra it seems like a nobler refuge. In East and West, Shakespeare scized on effective dramatic terms...
...shame, however, at this point, is black as he considers reputation. Command returns the moment reputation yields to woman...
...positively regains the self-command which makes possible pure heroic action. The two suicides- as triumphs over Caesar- represent the greatest heroic acts possible in the world. Suicide is the last act to make life comprehensible. It is purified of self-contempt and vain resignation by the capture, through the suffering of shame, of that internal fire which burns the will clear. It is exonerated from the deeper vanity of despair, or storic contemptus mundi, by the perfect fusion of hand and heart. Decretas dispels all ambiguity...
...actions in Cambodia, U. S. reconnaissance planes sighted a North Vietnamese jungle hide-out yesterday two miles inside Cambodia while searching for the headquarters of the supreme Communist command. No major enemy troop movements were observed in the area...
...took a few months, but the group eventually sold the idea to such investors as First National City, Chase, and Morgan Guaranty banks. They also intrigued LIFE Photographer-Writer Gordon Parks into taking command as editorial director. His professional hand and eye are evident in the monthly's first issue (circ. 150,000), out this week in 145 cities at 60? a copy. Its tone is best described as Vogue-cum-Ramparts-a somewhat uneasy combination...