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...Mineral King impact statement was far from impartial. The state's Secretary for Resources wrote that the draft EIS was "premature" and that it appears to be "a conclusionary rather than a questioning document." This and other critical letters forced the Forest Service back to its drawing board; to patch up flagrant weaknesses in the draft and probably to scale down the project somewhat before filing a final EIS before this January. When that happens, the entire case will return to court, where the Sierra Club suit is awaiting the final...
...that all that ever concerned the U.S. government was its own military, political, and economic interests and that those interests were in direct conflict with the welfare of the Vietnamese. It is horrible, almost beyond imagining, that America now feels not the slightest pangs of duty to help patch together the nation it so blindly tore apart...
...barren outcrops of granite and sandstone, sparsely dotted with desert scrub. Beyond is the vast loneliness of the desert. The only evidence of man is a narrow, two-lane asphalt road that slithers along for 20 miles through the minefields and war wreckage surrounding the passes, and the bristling patch of antennas that mark the sophisticated, underground listening post at Umm Khisheib, northwest of Giddi. Except for Egyptian, Israeli and U.N. soldiers, the only people the Americans are likely to see are camel-riding Bedouins eerily wandering through the emptiness with no apparent destination...
...work like Tango (circa 1919), the dress suit and the white vest-rendered with the utmost economy as a patch of gesso on the smooth cherry-wood - take on a sleek, concise elegance far removed from the naive woodcarvings of country America that provoked Nadelman's hand. He was an exquisite connoisseur of gesture, and his finest works-particularly the suite of woodcarvings to which Tango belongs-stem from his delight in performance: in music halls or burlesques, at plays, piano recitals or even tea dances...
...succession of styles before fixing the manner of an earlier master, Ogata Kōrin, who had been dead for almost a century. But his own paintings were much less formalized than Kōrin's. Hōitsu was an exquisite observer of small events: a patch of lichen on the pale bark of a branch, rendered with a diffused blot of malachite green; the lively flutter of peony leaves, each surrounded, with a kind of inlaid distinctness, by a barely noticeable fringe of untouched background...