Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union to take Europe's security interests into account. For us, the zero option, the withdrawal and destruction of Soviet SS- 20s and of U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles, could be positive elements as long as there existed, on a parallel basis, the broad outlines of agreement in principle on equilibrium in short-range missiles and on the means of verification. Will it be balanced and verifiable? We're not there...
...time is the mid-1990s, and Dr. Tom More has returned home to Feliciana parish, that swath of Louisiana land running "from the Mississippi to the Pearl, from the thirty-first parallel to the Crayola blue of Lake Pontchartrain." More (a prominent, visionary presence in Love in the Ruins) has spent two years in a minimum-security federal prison in Alabama for peddling uppers and downers. "I needed the money," he tells the two physician friends who have been charged with overseeing his probation. Now Tom, alcoholism temporarily in control, needs to resume his psychiatric practice. The trouble...
This interest flowed from two parallel developments between January and April 1985. First, U.S. government aid to the Contras had run out and "elements of the NSC staff focused their efforts on strategies for repackaging the Contra program to increase support on Capitol Hill," according to the Tower Commission...
...year later the Jupiter missiles were removed as quietly and inconspicuously as possible. In his later memoirs, Robert Kennedy wrote that the missiles in Turkey had become "hostages of the Soviet Union." Meanwhile, President Kennedy was unabashedly lying to the public that no "hostage" trading would be considered. The parallel is clear. To impeach Reagan now would be just as ridiculous as impeaching Kennedy then. It is difficult, if not impossible, to conduct foreign policy with all of the cards on the table all of the time...
...acts, collectively titled Danger: Memory!, at New York City's Lincoln Center. One is a kitchen slice of life between elderly friends, the other a charged and almost surreal interview between a hostile police detective and the father of a murder victim. What links them is a parallel revelation: in each, a man about Miller's age admits that after basing his life on progressive principles, he is no longer sure these tenets do the world any good. Taken together, the plays amount to a cry from the heart for lost certitude. They lack the accusatory force that empowered Miller...