Word: parallelling
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...omens of settlement gathered too. The U.S. restricted its bombing of North Viet Nam to targets below the 20th parallel. South Vietnamese flags were selling at a brisk pace in Saigon, as Vietnamese prepared to show their colors?and protect themselves ?in the event of a truce. In Paris, the French government was said to be making quiet preparations to host a new Geneva-style "guarantee conference" of five or six nations that would oversee an orderly cessation of hostilities throughout the scarred Indochina landscape. Inevitably, the accounting would begin of the cost of a decade...
July 21, 1954. At Geneva conference, war-weary French agree to temporary partition of Viet Nam at 17th parallel. Ho's Viet Minh march into Hanoi in October and establish capital of Communist North Viet Nam. U.S.-backed Premier Ngo Dinh Diem takes charge of South Viet Nam. Geneva accords call for elections in two years to reunify country...
ELIOT HOUSE DINING ROOM: King Kong and Gentleman Prefer Blondes, Oct. 27 and 28, Kong 8, Blondes 10, $1. HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH: Ghosts Before Breakfast by Hans Richter; Diving Sequence from Olympia by Leni Riefenstahl; Adebar by Peter Kubelka; A Movie by Bruce Conner: To Parallel by Bruce Beillie: Neurology by Standish Lawder; and Moon 1969 by Scott Bartlett...
Doris Lessing herself has gone the route from Marxist materialism to Sufi mysticism. The parallel with Orkney is quietly apparent. So is the meaning: that the beliefs one holds at various times are not always as important as the journey to and from them...
Later, it became Braque's habit to mix sand with his paint. The gritty paste, imbued with color and resistant to the skimming eye, served two purposes. It presented his paintings as surface; and it insisted upon a slowness of inspection, parallel to the immense deliberation which Braque himself brought to the act of painting. Such works are all about explicitness: witness a masterpiece like The Pink Tablecloth, 1938, with its assembly of waterjug, book, lemons and glass enjoying their mutual silvery transparency on a pale amoebic cloth, linked together by a shaved white line that both dictates...