Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They argue that for all the Allied success in search-and-kill forays against the Communists, victories over the enemy's main-force military units are like pushing water up the side of a bowl. The moment the mailed fist of U.S. power is withdrawn to search out the enemy elsewhere, the water, meaning the Red control of the countryside, runs back. Pacification efforts have largely failed in rural areas because there are not enough Allied troops to leave behind to provide a permanent shield behind which civilian teams can reclaim the peasants for the government. Even should negotiations...
...West Germany," says one Defense Department official. What is more, and far more disturbing, is that without calling up the reserves or increasing draft levels, the U.S. military simply does not have that many men available for Viet Nam duty. And there, for the moment, rests the debate, which might well affect the outcome of the war in which 5,800 U.S. lives have already been invested...
...that he was forming the new Buddy Rich Band, the boys in the business merely yawned. Cocky, flip, belligerent, Rich had drummed his way in and out of more orchestras, mismanaged more money than any ten musicians. The new Buddy Rich Band? "Another one of his fancies for the moment," shrugged Bandleader Stan Kenton. But then, to everyone's surprise, the band not only materialized but drew enthusiastic, sellout crowds in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Marveled Kenton: "Rich is serious...
...paints Isobel Rawsthorne, wife of Composer Alan Rawsthorne (see opposite page); or the painter Lucian Freud, the grandson of Sigmund. He does not try to provide insights into their specific characters. Says he, "I am really trying to create formal traps which will suddenly close at the right moment recording this fact of man as accurately...
What fascinates Bacon is the perfect portrait of human tragedy. He resurrects the image of man halfway between life and death like some mad coroner who frames the clotted residue of life. "We exist this short moment between birth and death," he says. "You are more conscious of sunlight when you see the darkness of the shadows. There is life and there is death, like sunlight and shadow. This must heighten the excitement of life. And then it heightens the horror...