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When Chiang and his mainlanders arrived in 1949, they set up not only a top-heavy military establishment on the island (1,600 generals and 200 admirals by one authoritative estimate) but also two parallel civilian governments. One supposedly rules the Republic of China. The other administers the province of Taiwan, which since 1949 has been under martial law, backed up by an active political police force...
...this month, members of the Mississippi State Highway Patrol fired into a women's dormitory at Jackson State College, and murdered Philip Gibbs and James Earl Green and wounded nine other students. The incident at Jackson, coming within two weeks of the four murders at Kent State, were immediately paralleled to the Kent killings, and used as a re-enforcement of the "Student as Nigger" metaphor. However, there was a large and important difference between what happened at Jackson and what happened at Kent, and an even larger difference in what has been the reaction to the two events. These...
...remain unknown entirely, magical creatures are composites of the world we know, and we turn men into pigs, always the unknown. Milton made it concrete and germinal and capitalized it with Heaven and Hell. Chaos is when things are skew at their origins, can never come together, cannot be parallel for sense or reason...
...emerge ?backs to the audience, as if a reflection: new vamps for old. The symmetry of the ballet?choreographed by Follies Co-Director Michael Bennett?is never violated for a quarter-note. When an old girl turns, her "reflection" makes the selfsame move in reverse, a feat whose parallel can only be found in the trickery that cinema allows. The second crescendo is Alexis Smith's Story of Lucy and Jessie, a flame-red, high-kicking number in the old top-hat-and-tails tradition, an echo of a Cole Porter patter song...
That is a rather sticky parallel. Although Boggs has yet to produce evidence that his or any other Congressman's phone was ever tapped, reports surfaced last week that the bureau had monitored conversations and telephone calls between Representative John Dowdy, a Texas Democrat, and an FBI informer. The recorded conversations were used to indict Dowdy on March 30 for allegedly accepting $25,000 in a bribery conspiracy. This would seem to contradict the bureau's claim that it has never tapped a congressional phone. Technically, though, the FBI has a case: a Justice Department spokesman noted that...