A few young visionaries may have more influence than an army of time-servers and a forest of deadwood.
To an April 26th cocktail party at his home, on West 11th Street, Raines invited an army of Times employees, past and present, and wandered through the 4-story house dispensing bonhomie.
This is not to suggest that the leading characters in "Boris Godunov" are ciphers, interchangeable foot soldiers in the armies of time.
They now attract an army of full-time, part-time and occasional traders, and have evolved into a form of entertainment in their own right.
The New Yorker, March 13 , 1926 P. 7Return of Gen. Pershing from unsuccessful participation in Tacna Arica negotiations reminded army officers of time when C.O. of A.E.F.
In a recent book ("China's Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation"), David Shambaugh describes how the 74m-strong party has fired whole armies of time-servers.
Why would any man of colour want to be an officer in the army of the time?
In the Roman army of the time of the Punic Wars (3rd 2nd century bc), the slingers were auxiliaries from Greece, Syria, and Africa.
At Seringapatam their forces were 50,000 strong, the size of a big European army of the time.
Other than that one scene and a flutter look at a white junkie getting whacked by Lucas, there's absolutely no hint that the drug racket, the gangsters that run it, bribe cops and politicians, and put an army of small time dealers, and bag men and women on the street are anything but African-Americans.
We've got an army of full-time reps and officials out there.
