Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time, Renoir makes it clear that the Cancan girls are individuals, not simply submissive to Danglar's way of life. Though we initially question the individuality of people who happily exist as part of the order of Danglar's universe. Renoir knows that commitment to life on a huge scale is not important; Danglar's life style is grander, more imposing, but the dancers (like Camilla) find life's deepest, most joyful, meaning for themselves through dancing. Nini allows Danglar to leave her, abandons a rich lover and an ex-fiance, choosing the Cancan, not men, as the truest means...
...advisor, rapidly grew into a demand for wide-ranging changes in the University's standards and policies. By the end of the week of demonstrations and rallies, 400 students had marched four and one-half miles to the county court house, the Houston police had braced for a full-scale riot, and three of the protest leaders had been jailed on charges which included threatening to kill police officers...
...moment, none of the plans seems likely to be put to imminent use. Souvanna Phouma has made it plain that he wants no enlargement of the war in Laos beyond its present scale, fearing that the North Vietnamese would then attack non-Communist portions of Laos in earnest. Moreover, the mountainous terrain in Laos is far less favorable than that of South Viet Nam for massive use of U.S. troops. The U.S. command in Saigon feels that the large number of men required for a barrier can be better used to hit the enemy when he enters South Viet...
Despite some probable disappoint ments when and if the tariff cuts take effect on the scale indicated by the final bargaining, the free world should move a step closer to economic unity...
Viet Nam is no war for the classic military historian. It offers no vast clash of arms; no divisions sweep and pivot to the grand strategy of latter-day Clausewitzes. Instead there are quick, dirty fire fights-usually on no more than platoon or company scale-set in copses of bamboo and thorn vine so thick that men kill at a range of 10 ft. without having once seen each other. It is a war of leg-shearing booby traps and dung-smeared punji stakes, of professional skill and personal courage. It is also a war that is tailor-made...