An ambitious goal to change the principles by which governments fund the arts foundered, I suspect, on the rock-hard inability of governments and organisations to change unless forced to do so.
His strategy is rooted not only in calculated opportunism, but also in a rock-hard philosophy of how the game must be played today.
Something else helped the men of D-Day: their rock-hard belief that Providence would have a great hand in the events that would unfold here.