Word: akin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the help of Blit interpreters, whose language is distantly akin to Tasaday, communication slowly began. The primitives had no weapons, no agriculture, no art, no religion, no words for bad, enemy, war or kill. For good and beautiful they used the same term, mafeon. They loved the jungle; open country was "where the eye sees too far." Happiness flooded their lives. They laughed and hugged and nuzzled by the hour...
...when she first showed her work in the U.S., Riley's paintings were almost synonymous with visual assault. Black elliptical dots on a white ground, arranged in a grid but turning fractionally to set up an irritating instability of focus; parallel stripes whose wavy motion produced something akin to seasickness. Ever since her art-student days in London, Riley had been fascinated with patterns based on repeated units: the dots in Seurat's paintings, the balance of delicate strains between Mondrian's squares...
Racked from within by deep-seated political and religious tensions and troubled from without by neighbors whose feuds overlap borders, Lebanon is something akin to a high-wire act in a hurricane. Last week without warning, it slipped. The result was a bloodbath...
...diary amount to a rough draft of The Divine Milieu, the 1926-27 treatise (finally published in 1957) in which Teilhard formally set out his view of God as a "center" who "fills the whole sphere" of creation. Despite his disclaimers, the church found this idea dangerously akin to pantheism, the idea that God and the universe are identical. A comment on the last day of July 1916 summarizes his lifelong attempt to reconcile Catholicism and modern science: "My mission = very humbly but ceaselessly to take part in sanctifying natural progress, evolution, by revealing ... its sacred...
Last fall Grenoble started to extend its bus and trolley systems. Now it is testing a new kind of "people mover" -an aerial tramway akin to a ski lift that may be extended from the city center to the suburbs. The city is also giving downtown shoppers a break; cars have been banned on three streets which have become pedestrian malls. By 1980, Mayor Hubert Dubedout predicts, downtown will be served exclusively by public transport-a pedestrian's paradise, with no automobiles to be seen...