Word: hues
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hue and cry following George Jackson's demise at San Quentin, one slight bit of evidence is being overlooked by the bleeding hearts...
Recalls Penelope Gilliatt (hard g as in grin): "He sensed something perilous in the air even then." The hair and skin are the same hue that used to transport Titian, and she has never married a Hungarian of any kind. But as for the "something perilous"-well, Conner's trepidations were founded...
...breaking point came in May 1966 when Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, then the country's military strongman, provoked another Buddhist outburst by saying that he would remain in office another year, postponing the scheduled elections. After dissident South Vietnamese soldiers and Buddhists seized control of Danang and Hue, Ky moved in troops of his own without consulting the U.S. Reacting with what the Pentagon analysts called "unrestrained fury," the State Department cabled the embassy to stop the fighting. "This may require tough talk," read the dispatch, "but the U.S. cannot accept this insane bickering." Marine General Lewis W. Walt...
...Hue and Cry. Hers is far from a great natural voice, but it has the deceptive thin strength of a whip antenna. Its basic hue is a Canarsie twang that suggests Judy Holliday negotiating The Party's Over. But hue is one thing and cry another, as proved by Carole's pile-driving thrust in a number called Smackwater Jack, or her tender, searching way with the line, "Sometimes I wonder if I'm ever gonna make it home again...
...rather ignore, Kahn's reply strongly suggests that he's against bloodbaths - a moral argument if ever there was one! For Herman Kahn wants to play it both ways. His moral sensibilities are most upset about what "the Communists" might do, or about the highly doubtful events at Hue. But the morality of free-fire zones, of B-52 raids? Ah, well... that's "complicated," Kahn doesn't want to "divide the country," and besides, those moral arguments are quite "beside the point...