Word: parred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late 1940s. In Japan, where the 36,000 American troops are regularly augmented by thousands of G.I.s on R & R (rest and recreation) from Viet Nam, pacifist and peace groups have had no better luck. Indeed, U.S. desertions worldwide, including the Viet Nam command, are running on a par with the Korean War (two per 1,000) and at a rate considerably lower than World...
...time when liberals are under heavy attack for their views on the war and on civil rights from both the radicals and conservatives, Allard K. Lowenstein stands out as a liberal par excellence...
...Conner paints and pastes together his caustic collages and assemblages from all manner of thrift-shop odds and ends. When they were shown at the Museum of Modern Art's "Art of Assemblage" in 1961, William Seitz, the show's organizer, was sufficiently impressed to rank Conner on a par with Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Yet, while the latter two have gone on to Venicelebrity and $20,000 canvases, Conner, at 34, remains mainly an underground hero, known to the world at large only for his fine experimental films...
...millions of Americans who have fractured French while extolling the beauties of France, any entente that is less than cordiale with the land of par-lez-vous is as unthinkable as Paris with out spring or onion soup minus the crouton. But now la soupe is spoiled-and most Americans are blaming one chef d'etat too many. Grated raw by the rough edge of the French President's tongue, they are kindled with an ardent wish to divide Charles de Gaulle into three parts...
Skinned Cadavers. The tusk of the full-grown elephant, which can grow up to six feet long and weigh as much as 50 Ibs., was valued on a par with jade and gold by the early Chinese, who carved it into intricate designs and tiny plaques. Cleveland's finely chiseled plaque of Christ with the twelve Apostles, probably intended for a book cover and executed in Germany around A.D. 970, shortly after Otto the Great founded the Holy Roman Empire, is an unusual example that shows how Otto-nian workshops combined early Christian design with Saxon severity. Seven centuries...