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There was a brief ceremony at Bayeux, the cathedral town about five miles inland that served as U.S. headquarters during the first weeks after the invasion. Later, a torch was lighted at Utah Beach, where the 4th Division had land ed, and a military band played the na tional anthems of the U.S., Britain, France, Canada, The Netherlands, Belgium and Norway...
...Americans have always been a violent people," the scholars found. Interest groups have typically used force both for protection and to gain their ends, but few Americans recall their heritage of violence. The civics-book image of America as a Promised Land, the task force lamented, has obscured in most citizens' minds the fact that their country's history is littered with illegal acts of violence...
...revolutionary spirit in Marx's Europe was essentially anarchistic. It was the revolt of men alienated by industrializing change from the land, from their tools, from a sense of their status-however humble-in a society that they understood. Although Marx sympathized with the emotions that called forth this revolt, he recognized anarchism's impotence and fought it bitterly. In his view, nothing could or should stop the march of industrialization and its political and social consequences...
...lived on the rings of Saturn." So Miss Peter, 73, persuaded Composer Norman Dello Joio to write a special work for the sesquicentennial, then hired Eugene Ormandy and his Philadelphia Orchestra to come to Little Rock to play it. She mortgaged a small portion of her land to foot the $60,000 bill, meticulously planned the concert to the last detail (even making sure that none of the musicians was allergic to magnolias). Last week the orchestra performed Dello Joio's suite, Homage to Haydn, and Ormandy himself embraced Miss Peter onstage. She is, said Ormandy, "a new lady...