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WITH ITS FINAL deadline only two weeks away, the Ford administration's ill-conceived draft evasion Clemency Board has taken to the airwaves in a last-ditch effort to lure takers...
This crisis, according to Bernstein, divided modern composers into two warring camps "the way a great river divides into two forks." The Viennese school, led by Arnold Schoenberg, "gave up the struggle to preserve tonality;" Igor Stravinsky and his followers represented a "last ditch stand" against "the rampages of chromaticism." Bernstein's language gives the lie to his pose of dispassionate neutrality, and for that matter his own music plainly shows both his distaste for atonality and his adoration of Stravinsky...
...emphasized that the meeting was not a "last-ditch" effort. "It wasn't any back room kind of thing," Farenthold said. "All party groups had a part in the negotiations and liberal labor was very active...
...runoff ditch, fed by the drains from the campgrounds. Left alone it is a glorified mud puddle, finely churned by the hundreds of motorcycles that scramble back and forth. In the middle a naked man is rolling about in the mire. The deeper he sinks, the greater the crowd's pleasure. A few thousand people now mill about this shallow, bowl-like dip of land, waiting for another victim, throwing empty cans of beer at each other. For the present they must content themselves with stoning the engine of an already charred hulk. Here there is no real audience...
...Shot in Ditch. The attack started just before 8 a.m. The report states that Galley's 1st Platoon moved through My Lai killing Vietnamese. "Most of the inhabitants who were not killed immediately were rounded up into two groups. The first group, consisting of about 70-80 Vietnamese, was taken to a large ditch east of My Lai and later shot. A second group, consisting of 20-50 Vietnamese, was taken south of the hamlet and shot there on a trail...