Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the words were carefully conditional and hardly conciliatory, several governments with consulates in Hanoi were advised by the Communists that it was a "semaphoric" statement. Accordingly, they relayed to Washington the implication that an American bombing halt might result in peace talks. U.S. Hanoi-watchers were quick to note that the "could be" statement did not once refer to North Viet Nam's oft-repeated four-point conditions for negotiations; in particular, it did not mention the Viet Cong as a full-fledged negotiating partner from the start. Beyond that, there was a great deal of conjecture about...
Curtis said that the commission had not given proponents of the volunteer army a chance to present their views. Each time he offered to testify before the panel, he said, he received a perfunctory note acknowledging receipt of his letter and nothing else...
Schlesinger also argues that the U.S. should devote its resources more to "clear-and-hold" operations aimed at creating secure areas, than to "search-and-destroy missions, which drive the Viet Cong out of villages one day and permit them to slip back the next." But he fails to note that no clear-and-hold strategy can succeed as long as guerrillas are permitted to terrorize the countryside-and it is the search-and-destroy sweeps that keep them...
...read it all, day after day. You can't let yourself get bored, and you have to keep the memory drum whirling all the time. When you see something a hundred times over in the same phrase or the same adjective, and they change it, you take note. One variation, or even two, might not mean a thing. So you hold it in your mind and keep reading. If the change is repeated, you know you've got something...
...necessity for considering the artist's intent and personality is the only common note that modern opinion strikes. It is a doctrine that brings art criticism down to the plane of psychoanalysis. The principle was perhaps pushed to its extreme by Peegy Guggenheim, who has admitted that she was not much impressed by Jackson Pollock as a painter until the day he urinated in her fireplace...