Word: conquests
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sketchy reports, in fact, seem to show the way toward the only hope for a nation that has struggled for centuries toward nationalism and self-determination. The ongoing conquest of Vietnam by communist and allied forces is as morally good a thing as there can be in a nation where war has made all situations infinitely complex. It will mean, if nothing else that Vietnam will be under the control of a movement that began among and has been nurtured by its own people. If the NLF's past actions are any indication, it is likely to bring massive reforms...
...tragedy it may spawn, the communist conquest, seem in the context of the past decade's events there is the best recent news from Vietnam. For conquering armies the North Vietnamese and NLF have been unusually nonviolent, especially by comparison to the Americans, and South Vietnamese--although it is easy to be nonviolent when one's enemy isn't putting up a fight. They have taken most of South Vietnam with very little bloodshed and they have not used at all the Americans' most brutal tool of war--mass bombings of civilian and military areas in the cities and countryside...
EVEN IN WHAT they did report, American papers left their readers to guess at Key connections and supply crucial facts themselves. Montagnard involvement in the conquest of Ban Me Thuot received some play, but no one pointed out that the tribesmen--however ripe Time now considers them for Communist exploitation--generally fought in the past for France and the United States. Is the apparent Montagnard defection another sign of the end of Thieu, a portent of a new national Vietnamese unity that will embrace racial minorities or just a matter of different groups of tribesmen? The Guardian, a Maoist news...
...when Hubert Robert, in 1798, took a maypole dance in Arcady and transformed it into a ring of nymphs dancing around an eroded and indecently suggestive obelisk, he gave a pastoral form to the obsession which, in part, seems to have driven Napoleon to the Nile -the symbolic conquest of eternity by masculinity...
...huge military establishment. (The ubiquitous Byron, in this version, leads an unsuccessful workers' rebellion against George IV and is executed.) H.A.L. Fisher's Napoleon is a bit more believable. At 46, he escapes to America after losing at Waterloo. Thereupon he blusters his way to a conquest of Peru and finally hatches the notion of striking at England through India. Chance intervenes, and Napoleon is lost...