Word: parallele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time take any strong exception to Soviet aid to the Pathet Lao. It is hardly possible, as Khruschev's Cuban note said, to handle matters in such a way as to extinguish a conflagration in one area only to kindle fires in another. Cuba and Laos are parallel enough to reveal why it is in Khruschev's interest to move patiently; but by the same token, it is in the West's interest to drive as quickly as it can for a Laotian settlement, whatever happens in Cuba...
...other half of the country, below the 17th parallel. Its riches are greater than Laos', but a victory in Laos would help win South Viet...
Uncosmic Rays. The book's hero, Nich olas Rennet, is a brilliant American physicist whose creative powers are fast shriveling in the spiritual fallout from The Bomb, which he helped build. Intellectually and emotionally paralyzed, he attends a scientific conference in Moscow, befriends a Russian physicist whose experiments parallel Rennet's but whose conclusions do not. Rennet finally straightens himself out in a cliffhanging denouement three miles up in the Caucasus, while trapped by an avalanche. Along the way, Rennet, whose productive barrenness is matched only by his reproductive fecundity, seduces his own secretary, one of his Russian...
...Self-Destruction. In Hamlet, worldly-wise Polonius gets everything wrong but is never at a loss for plausible hypotheses or cagey tactics. Lewis Eliot is only half wrong in these novels, but that half blights his personal life. His wife and his best friend take parallel roads to self-destruction...
...Harvard student body will be chosen as special assistants to President Kennedy's cabinet," a newspaper columnist quipped recently. Certainly the exodus of some highly-placed University officers compliments the faculty's interest and competence in public affairs. Such professorial excellence may not parallel a first-rate undergraduate system of education, however. This point has been raised frequently in these columns for the last year; with the exception of the moribund Student Council Committee on Educational Policy, the CRIMSON is the only organized undergraduate voice for curricular criticism...