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...influenced by Rimbaud and Baudelaire, as well as by the works of the American primitivists from the Harlem Renaissance, particularly Claude MacKay. But it was the style of the French symbolists he most admired. The first line of "The Griffin" ("I am a memory that does not reach the threshold") is reminiscent of the opening of Nerval's "El Desdichado," and Cesaire's use of the Alexandrine meter recalls Baudelaire's poems. However, his exotic images were not correspondences to a higher world, but the very natural environment of Martinique and Africa (which he had seen and Baudelaire...
...Massachusetts, those precious delegates are chosen through dual system with "threshold levels" designed to prevent less popular candidates from winning delegates and accentuate the leads of the top vote-getters...
Each candidate will receive a number of delegates equivalent to his share of the vote in each particular congressional district. But any candiate who does not surpass "the presidential preference threshold," 14.4 percent of the vote in the fifth and the eighth districts and 16.6 percent of the vote in the rest of the state, will not get any delegates. So if for example, a candidate were to finish with 10 percent of the state-wide vote but not garner more than 14 percent in any one congressional district, rather than receive seven of the 68 directly-elected delegates...
...here again there is a threshold candidates must reach before they can receive any seats. In this case, if a candidate does not receive a full 20 percent of the votes cast, he will not be eligible to receive any pledged delegates from the 34 remaining statewide seats. Instead these seats are divided up among the candidates who garner totals of over 20 percent of the statewide vote in proportion to their primary support...
...defense; the nature of the so-called nuclear threshold?the point where there is no choice except conventional defeat or nuclear escalation; the relationship between strategy and arms control. Since nuclear weapons would presumably be used only if conventional defense failed, Europe would be responsible for setting the nuclear threshold by its own efforts; it could relieve its nuclear anxieties by the simple expedient of augmenting its conventional defenses...