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...stark statistics of death and destruction, it was less than cataclysmic. But all the other ghetto uprisings have been the result of chance or bad judgment, some random local incident or emotional shock, such as Martin Luther King's murder, that put the spark to the fuse. Cleveland's battle was planned...
...Communist commander for the capital district. At night, his rocketeers slip to within range of the city, often using, for the sake of speed, crude earthworks and bamboo racks rather than unwieldy launcher tubes to aim their whispering death on Saigon. Easily broken down into sections-a 2-lb. fuse, a 41-lb. warhead and a 59-lb. motor section-the rockets can be carried by porters, are quickly assembled and fired by a crew of only three men. The missiles are not notably precise-at a maximum range of about seven miles, gunners are lucky if they hit within...
...fuse them into one marching language in which...
...answer thus is to fuse the whole Executive more closely with the Legislative branch. This could be done, for example, by having a President elected as at present and three or four Vice-Presidents--all members of and nominated by the Congress, in a "cabinet" that would assume collective responsibility for actions. The idea is simply to make both activist branches of government work together and assume responsibility instead of having them perpectually working at cross-purposes so that the country drifts vaguely in the direction of the stronger...
Just as one Paris retrospective lit the fuse for the 1905 Fauvist explosion, so in 1907 another snuffed it out. In that year, painters trooped in to view the Cezanne memorial retrospective. Before long, palettes all over Montmartre darkened as artists imitated Cezanne's can vases, which emphasized structure at the expense of color. The result was cubism, which is based in part on Cezanne's injunction: "Nature must be treated through the cylinder, the sphere, the cone." Vlaminck tried his hand at cubism, but with no great success. After four years in the French army, he emerged...