Word: demi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last Charge. The battle neared its end. The Communists regrouped and turned southward against Isabelle. Isabelle was ready. Its 13th Demi-Brigade...
What is left? A few hundred frames of calm beauty, a quiet memory of a sort of negative Eden, the last backward look into a primitive demi-paradise lost (little more than a year after these pictures were taken, Chinese Communist armies moved into Tibet). The camera sees the herds of yak grazing below icy peaks in meadows of wild orchids, and finds the barley harvests lying like some sort of killed light in the thin blue air. Wild flowers splurge -in summer the whole Himalaya seems a giant's rock garden. Down from the mountains to the high...
Sherry, a formal dinner, demi-tasse and cigars, and the Tower glowing orange light which follow this invitation are merely the outward forms...
...brush them off the table anyway. Barnett brings me a plate with a finger bowl and doily on it. I remove the finger bowl and doily and John puts a glass saucer and a little bowl on the plate. Barnett brings me some chocolate custard. John brings me a demi-tasse (at home a little cup of coffee-about two good gulps) and my dinner is over. I take a hand bath in the finger bowl and go back to work. What a life...
...diners finished off their demi-tasses, the toastmaster announced the Grand New March. A blue spotlight blanked on, wandered around the stage, and finally fell upon a heavy woman dressed in black and with long, flashing carrings, who was striding toward the microphone at the edge of the platform. The orchestra struck up a jaunty melody and there was a song about marching on. The audience joined in on the second stanza and a hand stuck out over the balcony to wave time...