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More specifically, Huntington has frequently been identified with the "urbanization" strategy of the U.S. Air Force, a strategy which has wrought unspeakable devastation in the South Vietnamese countryside. Bluntly put, the "rationale" of urbanization has been to saturate the rural areas of the South with bombs, causing large numbers of surviving civilians to flee from areas under NLF control. Crowded into teeming, poverty-striken refugee camps outside South Vietnam's cities, growing numbers of the South Vietnamese people have fallen under the political and military control of the Saigon regime...
...that are apparently the Russian equivalent of those excruciating ashtrays one is offered in Texas airports. Mother Russia has dumped the contents of her apron into the Corcoran, and the result is a heterogeneous pile of modern kitsch, late czarist elegance and early barbaric splendor, mingled with the beautifully wrought and unpretentious products of pre-Revolutionary folk artists. The less said about official post-Revolutionary folk art the better: it is characterized (except for some fine Baltic textiles) by an earnest garishness -in short, it is no better than the output of any other organized handicraft industry, and every...
...high points of the show are the icons and the opulent czarist bibelots. But then the question of the limits of folk art comes up. Can the men who wrought a jeweled bowl, half boat and half bird, for Czar Michael Fedorovich Romanov in 1624 be called folk artists? Obviously not. This courtly paradigm of imperial extravagance is of an order quite different from the decorated spindles, distaffs and painted figures of the Russian provinces...
Cowboy Gangs. The new role of ARVN in the war has wrought many changes in South Vietnamese life. On the shabby tin huts outside the base at Cu Chi, which was turned over to the South Vietnamese in 1970, the signs in English that used to hawk steambaths and massage parlors have been only partially covered over by messages in Vietnamese tuned to ARVN needs and tastes: cheap gifts, laundry services and sinh-to, the Vietnamese variation of Orange Julius...
...kind of do or die thing in the Ivy League that one finds in other conferences around the country." Stoeckel noted, and the players play because they "love the game". "The pressure is the same, though, big school or small," he noted. "One couldn't find a more pressure-wrought game than the Harvard-Dartmouth game," he concluded...