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...whose patient strategy in turning back Napoleon's invasion of Russia is immortalized in Tolstoy's War and Peace. The old general used time, weather, distance, maneuver and surprise to defeat the mightiest army ever assembled in Europe. "General Kutuzov outfought Napoleon, he didn't just overwhelm him with weapons," says Hart. "We must learn to do the same...
...course, its effect is the reverse of irony; one cannot have irony without rigor. Instead, it turns into the defensive chumminess that is one of the hallmarks of provincial art-the trade unionism of the In joke. Such longueurs threaten but do not overwhelm the effort to improve coast-to-coast cultural communication. This show is well worth seeing; and it will do a lot to dispel the faint condescension which, in some quarters, still clings to mere clay. -By Robert Hughes
...brought the stars out one by one on Christmas Eve. He lighted the window of the Reagans' bedroom with an artist's alchemy of oil and watercolor, a small golden rectangle of warmth and hope. It is a reminder that joy and thanks, for the moment, can overwhelm chaos and brutality, and the simple human ritual of a midnight prayer or a final package wrapping can replace those rumbles of nations marching...
...this week from a three-game losing streak by beating UNH, 77-73, Tuesday night. Picked by some experts to win the Ivies this year, the Crimson (now 3-4) played its best 20 minutes of basketball this year to make up a 13-point half-time deficit and overwhelm a startled pack of Wildcats...
...nuclear weapons. The meeting was the first of several that will take place between emissaries of Pope John Paul II and leaders of four of the five recognized nuclear powers. Hiatt and three other experts told the president that casualties from a single megaton explosion in Washington, D.C., would overwhelm the area's medical facilities, a suggestion Reagan reportedly did not dispute. Hiatt said that Reagan acknowledged during the 20-minute meeting that a nuclear exchange would "end civilization as we know it" and that it is impossible to "reconcile this with thoughts that one can win or survive...