Word: guns
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Under The Gun. There was a certain inevitability to the military's new power. During the uncultured excesses of the Cultural Revolution, Red Guards encouraged by Chairman Mao Tse-tung smashed much of the country's administrative machinery. In its place, regional power centers appeared. Of the 29 Revolutionary Committees that administer China today, 20 are controlled by army officers and the balance are run by men known to sympathize with the army's aims. The party now has become all but subordinate to the army, in clear contradiction of the Maoist dictum: "The party commands...
Apart from a dogmatic, astringent manner, Miss Sontag does not specifically resemble Miss McCarthy. She is, for one thing, far more "serious." By comparison, the younger McCarthy seems a kind of Vassar gun moll, playing Bonnie to the Clyde of Dwight Macdonald and other Partisan Reviewers of the 1930s and 1940s. Styles have changed. The vices (and virtues) of cleverness have now been replaced by the virtues (and vices) of relentlessly with-it seriousness. Susan Sontag-complete with academic sojourns at Oxford and the Sorbonne, and stints as a philosophy teacher-has proved to be just the girl to play...
...luck of the draw, Penn got the up-front position in the staggered start. At the gun, the Quakers came off at 39 strokes per minute to take a two seat lead in the first five pulls. The much higher-stroking Crimson got away at about...
Virtually every day for the past month, one reconnaissance platoon from the U.S. 25th Division has been taking to the countryside near the Cambodian border in a configuration highly unusual for the U.S. Army: four scouts tooling 175cc Hondas, followed by three machine-gun-mounting vehicles to provide cover. The scouts' job is to spot Communist troop concentrations and supply caches, using their wheels to cover more ground than foot-slogging infantrymen can. Says one of the riders, SP4 James G. Tomusho, of Lorain, Ohio: "It sure beats walking...
However commendable, the faculty's unwillingness to negotiate under the gun brought a new flood of passion. What the majority had overlooked was another perception: in the view of some professors and students, the blacks had been treated unfairly by Cornell's judicial system and had armed themselves only in self-defense. The blacks skillfully played on those feelings...