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In American foreign-policy circles, everyone is waiting for the next X. "X" was the byline on the famous 1947 essay in Foreign Affairs , actually written by George Kennan, that analyzed Soviet communism and laid out the post-World War II policy of "containment."
Hardly had the groundwork been laid when China entered the Korean War, sending “volunteers” to fight against American-led United Nations forces.
Gottlob's discoveries laid the foundation for a tremendous spurt of work in formal logic from the beginning of this century to the present day.
These "breakthrough" paintings, as Rothko himself called them, with their thick layers of paint laid on with big brushes purchased at a hardware store, give the lie to the critic Clement Greenberg's influential claim that Rothko "seems to soak his paint into the canvas to get a dyer's effect and avoid the connotations of a discrete layer of paint on top of the surface."
Once a ply is laid down, it is almost impossible to shift it because of the friction between the plies.