Word: reassertions
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Modern Molds. For the U.S. to reassert its economic primacy in its third century, argues Macrae, the nation will have to go back to its "longstanding, history-given, go-getting" economic pragmatism. He calls for a return to the old incentive-filled free-market philosophy, but in modern molds. Americans, he contends, must restructure their private companies and redesign their governmental bodies in order to free themselves from the bureaucratic shackles that now stifle their growth. They must also broaden the types of community living in the nation to include choices on the political right and left-meaning new concepts...
...feeling for structure. Most of the album is divided into one long piece with five movements. Its development is intricate and strung out over the whole length of the piece. Taylor uses his piano like an orchestra to simultaneously build different themes which appear and disappear only to reassert themselves at a later juncture. The music's complexity is stunning; like an intricate web seen from afar, his music seems initially amorphous, but upon closer examination each musical strand and the pattern into which it is woven appears. In many ways Taylor's style is the antithesis of Ayler...
...instance, the fact that the Defense Department had reason to believe that the crew members had been taken off Koh Tang--as in fact, they were--suggests that Ford sent Marines on to Koh Tank island not to retrieve crew members, but with no other purpose than to reassert American strength by killing Cambodian soldiers. All of the official postmortems emphasize the fact that the crew members were saved, without saying why Marines attacked Koh Tang when there was a reasonable doubt that crew members were still there...
Fitfully but emphatically, the old polarities of the '60s could still reassert themselves. At Berkeley, the cradle of student radicalism, some 1,000 demonstrators marched with Viet Cong flags to cheer the Communist victory. Activist Tom Hayden called the fall of Saigon "the rise of Indochina...
Sanford told a less-than-enthusiastic group of about 50 at the Science Center that if elected he would work to organize a national economic council to oversee the fine tuning of the economy, to guarantee full employment and to reassert America's lost role of "moral leadership" in world affairs...