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...coup," he speculated, "mostly because of opportunitists who joined for personal advantage. The membership of the Communist Party itself has probably been reduced by the purges. I don't think they've many converts; they have probably lost converts among the industrial workers, who resent the speed-up and shock-worker campaigns...
...South Korean army, against overwhelming odds, and with no armor, no fighter or bomber aircraft, and no artillery larger than the obsolete M-3 105-mm. howitzer, put up a gallant stand once it had recovered from the initial shock of the Communist attack . . . Under strength and fighting continuously since the morning of June 25, underestimated and looked down upon initially by their American comrades-in-arms, ignored by 90% of the correspondents covering the Korean war, these South Korean troops have written the first pages of their country's military history in a way that will make future...
Enwonwu's ancestors carved for magic purposes, not for exhibition. They gave force to their whittled gods by using many of the tricks of modern art: violent distortion of figures into angular cubistic shapes, mingling of naturalistic features with wholly abstract ones, the surrealist shock-value of giving vaguely human figures some of the attributes of animals and birds. The results struck at least one art historian, Roger Fry, as "great sculpture-greater, I believe, than any we have made...
Emery, hit in the side, thigh and foot, was suffering from shock. Nevertheless he managed to dictate a distraught account ("It had been a physical and mental ordeal beyond my powers to describe") to Correspondent Frank Conniff of Hearst's New York Journal-American, which splashed it across Page One-as did other Hearst papers. Churchill, who also got back under his own power, had a half-dollar-sized hole in his shin. But he calmly dictated a smooth, well-told story of the patrol to the Associated Press's Hal Boyle, to be sent...
Bela Bartok published only six string quartets, but as far as many a musician is concerned, they gave the intimate and delicate world of chamber music its rudest shock since Beethoven. With his First Quartet, composed in 1908 when he was 27, Bartok stalked into a field of harsh, hybrid harmonies and fierce rhythms that jolted Budapest listeners upright in their seats. In the Second (1917), Third (1927) and Fourth (1928), he cultivated the field; his harmonies became more astringent, the rhythms more incisive, the textures ever tighter. Listeners found much that was either impenetrable or unpalatable, but they also...