Word: lao
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while, the small town of Keng Kok in southern Laos seemed relatively safe from war. There was a fluid "front line" ten or 12 miles away, patrolled by troops of the North Vietnamese Army's 29th Regiment. They were reckoned to pose no threat to a town with only a market, a hospital and barely 5,000 inhabitants. In the early morning hours of Oct. 28, Keng Kok's immunity suddenly came to an explosive end. Two North Vietnamese companies, aided by local Pathet Lao allies, slipped into the town. Two missionaries trying to escape in their pickup...
...CHING by Lao Tsu. Translated by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English. Unpaged. Knopf. $7.95. The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese collection of short verses supposedly written by an almost certainly mythical sage named Lao Han or Lao Tsu about 2,500 years ago. This title means "The Classic of the Power of the Way." According to the jacket of this edition, an overfancy one gussied up with photographs (fog, snow, twigs, grass) and Chinese calligraphy, the Tao Te Ching has been translated more frequently than any book except the Bible. One reason is its poetic strength and simplicity...
There were other straws in the Indochinese winds too. The government of Laos began peace talks with the Communist Pathet Lao, and the Cambodian government suddenly requested that journalists refrain from using the word...
...attack underscored the fact that the Communists are essentially fighting one war in South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia. Their main objective in the latter two nations is to protect the massive supply lines that support the Vietnamese main front. But they are also fighting in order to bolster the claims of indigenous Communist organizations -Cambodia's Khmer Rouge and Laos' Pathet Lao-for representation in any new governments that might be established in an area-wide settlement of the war. The relative ease with which the Phnom-Penh attack was mounted points to the impressive gains...
...actually dictate the behavior of the paint"-a fact which explains the apparent jumps of style in his work. But Johnson's images are not about style. Their concern is, rather, contemplation; and Johnson's ancient forms, slowly experienced, form a kind of visual parallel to Lao-tzu's description of the Tao, the principle behind the universe...