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That I consider "anti-war" demonstrators partially responsible for the current Indochinese situation is true. That such a view, as Paul Barrett implies in his Crimson commentary, renders me a slavish supporter of American foreign policy since the Second World War is untrue, as Mr. Barrett knows but slyly disguised in his article...
Even Thailand's foremost art historian, Piriya Krairiksh, admits that he has trouble distinguishing Yas' reproductions from the 11th century originals. "It's awfully difficult because of his technical excellence, "Piriya explains. "Yas is not a slavish copier. He makes creative copies...
Reinstated in the army in 1950, Sadat joined Nasser in the coup that toppled King Farouk two years later. Sadat held a variety of posts under Nasser, distinguishing himself mainly by a slavish obedience that led colleagues to dub him "Nasser's poodle." Nasser apparently appreciated his docile loyalty and named him Vice President in 1969. A year later, Nasser was dead of a heart attack and the little-known Sadat became President...
...nobody of any consequence thought of him as a major painter-least of all Catlin himself. Even though he had established himself by the 1820s as a workaday miniaturist-portraitist in Philadelphia, he freely conceded that others were better at what he called "the limited and slavish branch of the arts in which I am wasting my life and substance for a bare living...
Then they slink back to Novasibirsk. In the meanwhile, they are again put through the critical wringer, Soviet films fascinate us: they are treated with all the pathological and slavish prurience of contraband. It's a wonder they all don't just buy a tract of land in Vermont and hide away forever behind a hundred yards of barbed wire fence...