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Thieu's response was swift and characteristic. He had a handful of lesser-known dissidents arrested, including two who had been at the tea meeting, as well as a number of journalists and politicians who tend to support Ky. The arrests were clearly meant to frighten the bigger fish in the opposition and demonstrate that Thieu not only was still in power but also intended to remain there...
...Devere is not ready to project that torment, and Christian fares no better. Nor has Director George C. Scott, Van Devere's husband, been able to elicit from the rest of the cast that sense of transcendence through suffering by which alone O'Neill's lesser texts can be salvaged...
...sort of thing we can attribute to such simple cause as his dissolute life or his inability to carry a tune. Bach seems to have had little rhythmic sense; indeed, his dance music, as Schickele has aid, suggests that one of his legs was shorter than the other. A lesser problem was his lack of melodic gift. As the third movement of the Serenoodle, entitled "Chorale Prelude," amply demonstrated. P.D.Q. Bach stole tunes from his better freely and without compunction...
Here were the Crimson racquetmen, 4-2 on a southern swing, and, in the words of their mentor, "beating up their lesser opponents" upon their return north. Everything seemed to be falling into place, as Harvard prepared for its matches with the class of the Ivies, Columbia, Penn and Princeton. Then lightening, in the form of divine intervention of a negative sort, struck...
...horizon; others swarm and cluster like a plague of monstrous locusts. Spread over 2,500 acres is an air armada that seems big enough to start World War III or, judging by the vintage of some of the craft, to replay World War II or any lesser conflict of the intervening years. Phalanxes of helicopters, their windows painted over, large numbers on their blunt noses, bear an eerie resemblance to massed football linemen. The air base is not some secret, Seven Days in May outpost, but the Pentagon's Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center (MASDC), a giant parking...