Word: akin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Satisfying as it is to Saigon to know that Ho has problems remarkably akin to South Viet Nam's own, Western analysts are more intrigued by a spate of recent Red articles and broadcasts dealing with the progress of the war. The conflict has gone progressively worse for the Communists ever since the U.S. arrived in force last year. Only now does Hanoi seem to be groping for a new theology to sustain the Viet Cong in the face of continued reverses...
...sculpture are electronic gadgets-solid-state circuits, cathode tubes, transistors and photoelectric cells. The results are intriguing thingumajigs for a technological age. The New York season has introduced two newcomers whose machines have all systems a Go-Go, invite human participation in their antics, and in return produce cacophonies akin to electronic music...
...Girl on Main Street. Glackens was the gentlest of these American impressionists. "Psychologically," Barnes said later, "Glackens is more akin to Renoir than any painter of our age." The painter's world was not the cafes of Paris but the more innocent one of the soda fountains of the U.S. He avoided the hurdy-gurdy of boxing matches, bathing beaches and laundry slung from slum fire stairs. Yet it is Glackens' reportorial honesty that lends to his lush vision of realism of America on the eve of world involvement...
...comments of the various spokesmen of the Harvard Administration as reported in the Crimson on Tuesday indicate a disturbing lack of insight into the issues that were involved in Monday's demonstration. In treating the demonstration as akin to a spring Riot, the Administration has effectively diverted attention away from the serious issues to superficial questions of form...
...season's first opening, on Sept. 22, will be Edward Albee's fifth annual Broadway entry, A Delicate Balance. The author calls it a "naturalistic comedy," akin to Virginia Woolf, about a disturbed suburban couple (Hume Cronyn and his wife, Jessica Tandy). Playwright Hugh Wheeler (Big Fish, Little Fish) has a stage version of the Shirley Jackson novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a disturbing mystery about two sisters in Vermont. Actor Stephen Levi has turned out a first play, Daphne in Cottage D about the widow (Sandy Dennis) of a famous movie star...