Word: heightening
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...conference table. At New Mexico State University, General Maxwell Taylor, a former U.S. ambassador to Saigon, declared that conditions for a negotiated peace had improved. The fact that U.S. bombers did not immediately head north when the truce ended at week's end served to heighten speculation...
...accounts, the bombing is serving no military purpose, and North Vietnamese representatives suggested in January that it is the only stumbling block to negotiations. The military inconvenience imposed by the bombing is obviously insufficient to impel the North Vietnamese to the conference table. The overriding effect has been to heighten the Communists' determination to fight...
Schlesinger also urges a suspension of U.S. bombing of the North, because the raids might well "heighten Hanoi's resolve to fight on." He is not alone in that argument. But he gives insufficient weight to an equal probability: an end to the bombing might lead Hanoi to the mistaken conclusion that if it holds off negotiations just a little longer, the U.S. will finally tire of the whole mess...
...benefactor of the hospital, through hints in a 19th century inventory, confirmed by minutes of a 1612 meeting at which a blank check was given to Confraternita's treasurer to pay Bernini. Its twin, of Benefactor Antonio Cepparelli, was done a decade later. Drill holes in the eyes heighten their lifelike aspect, and the craggy hand of Coppola that emerges from the cloak, as if from no possible shoulder, adds to the theatrical immediacy of the long lost work. Lavin believes that the Coppola bust was done by Bernini at age 13. Highly improbable? Yes, except for the dating...
...like some mad coroner who frames the clotted residue of life. "We exist this short moment between birth and death," he says. "You are more conscious of sunlight when you see the darkness of the shadows. There is life and there is death, like sunlight and shadow. This must heighten the excitement of life. And then it heightens the horror...