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...North. Through their representatives in Paris, Algiers, Bratislava and even Hanoi, the V.C. have announced that reunification should take place step by step, over a period of five to 20 years. All this pleases Viet Nam's smaller, frightened neighbors, some of whom use the same maxim that Britons apply to Germany: they love the country so much that they like to see two of them. Of course the U.S. is in no hurry for reunification. The Viet Cong's de-emphasis of the question may be a political ploy, but the fact is that...
...Though the boys throw stones at the frogs in sport," wrote an ancient Greek poet," the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest." The Barrow gang -Bonnie and Clyde, his brother Buck and wife Blanche, their goofy, moonfaced driver, C. W. Moss-proves the truth of that maxim with its targets. At first, the shots are scattered in the air, like careless shouts. Then one lands point-blank in the face of a bank clerk. Blood hurts onto the screen, and from that instant, the audience is torn between horror and glee...
...power the chairs. The pattern of lines incised into the cement floor is taken into account and even the accordion walls holding windows and louvres at the back of the room are used to display furniture. All is appropriate and sufficient, no more. Katayama takes van der Rohe's maxim "less is more" as his own--his aim is to parry and eliminate, always saying with the barest essentials more than would be said with much encumbrance and ornament. The beauty of his design is that he leaves the chairs to talk for themselves. In fact, he forces them...
...game against California had taken place in 1965, and Boston was already assured of ninth place, what would Mike Andrews have done? He would have tried to knock the ball over the fence, heeding the maxim that home run hitters drive Cadillacs, and singles hitters drive Chevrolets...
There is a maxim that the amount of gambling in a club is an inverse variation to its prestige. The Bat Club is known to be the gambling club, closely challenged by the Iroquois; the D.U. Club the least exclusive (among whites, that is); the A.D. Club and Fly Club good, but containing some ugly rich folk; the Porcellian Club the most prestigious, wealthy, and socially acceptable in Boston; the Spee Club and its Fred Roloff the most interesting and broad, but also sprinkled with dullards; the Owl Club the nest of Eastern preppies and athletes; the Phoenix Club...