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...always, Peking stuck to the dogma that the road to violent revolution in Africa, Asia and Latin America was the only path a true Marxist could follow. As for Soviet charges of warmongering, the Red Chinese replied with an argument that, ironically, echoed some Pentagon strategists. Brush-fire wars, declared Peking, need not necessarily escalate into an all-out nuclear struggle. Truth was, declared the manifesto, the Russians were too selfish and scared to risk their bourgeois gains in far-off battles. "To put it bluntly," said Red China, "whoever considers that a revolution can be made only if everything...
Verdicts in Advance. Arrests are almost always violent and without warrants; arresting officers rarely show proof that they are agents of the law, but burst into their quarry's home at night, brush off his explanations, wreck his belongings, pocket his valuables and hustle him off to jail in his underwear. Verdicts, said one court stenographer who took part in many of the trials, are "by remote control," the judge's opinion often written in advance...
Lifted Bible. As if to brush away the bitter past, MacDonald told the crowd that this was a "glad day in Kenya's history" and wished Kenyatta "every success in his task of leading Kenya forward to uhuru [freedom]." Kenyatta echoed the cry of uhuru, then, lifting a Bible high in his right hand, he took the oath of office as Prime Minister of self-governing Kenya...
Winning friends is no problem. The man intent on social conquest knows by subliminal heart that he need generally do no more than brush between meals or settle down with a stronger soap. At most, he has only to step up his vocabulary; sometimes it is simply a matter of developing more prominent pectoral muscles. It is how to lose friends that has become the contemporary American dilemma, and a tactical...
...before the viewer a psychological tension, an ambiguity, a presence that appears after a few minutes' looking. The greatest divorce from action painting lies in the works of the late Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis. Thinning oils with turpentine, they stained pigment into unsized canvas so that the brush stroke is invisible but the colors clash like a warring spectrum...