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...illustrate a strategy of pure force, Kahn presents the metaphor of "the escalation ladder," an abstract model which considers the various levels of violence at which nations can negotiate, threaten, and make war. The ladder begins at the level of an "ostensible crisis," in which neither side takes its opponent's demands seriously, and works its way up through forty-four rungs and six thresholds to "spasm war," in which a nation fires its total arsenal against the enemy with the goal of maximum destruction...
...chief purpose of the escalation ladder metaphor is to clarify our options for action at the "middle rungs," when we are using large conventional forces and threatening nuclear war to coerce our enemies. Only if we know how to move up and down the ladder skillfully, will we be able to pursue the national interest and at the same time avoid a possible escalation to all-out nuclear...
...character Shaffer has provided him. The gruffness is there, but so is the melancholy. The outward conflicts are there, but so are the just as real ones within him. He does wonders with the large number of Pizarro's short ariosos, marvelously rhythmed and filled with evocative and fresh metaphor. And his final scene is one of extraordinary beauty and deep pain...
...could have been prisoners trapped behind bars or, as Modern Museum Curator Frank O'Hara suggests, "bulls' tails and testicles hung side by side on the wall of the arena after the fight." Motherwell titled it Elegy to the Spanish Republic, and has obsessively used the visual metaphor 102 times in the intervening 17 years, even adapting it to the Irish Rebellion, until it has become his trademark. For the Modern's show, five Elegies, ranging up to 20 ft. in length, were lined up side by side along one wall, an ominous but noble salute...
Geyser of Words. Again, poetry saved his sanity. "Effortless and unpreventable," it burst out of him like a geyser-three, four, a dozen poems a day. From the first his verse was simple, sensual, strong; though he rarely employed a metaphor, he continually induced his readers to produce their own images, to feel in their bodies what appeared on the page. At 22, in a violent convulsion of composition, he produced a five-act farrago called Götz von Berlichingen that read like second-rate Shakespeare but made him famous overnight as a leader in a new literary movement...