Word: undo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with his eyes closed, breathing deeply and steadily, while you examine his body for possible kinks in his muscles and joints. Each time you find such a spot, you place your open palm on it, so that your partner will know to draw his breath from there and undo the knot...
These are the memories, thought of course he'll never know it, knotted under Henry's palms. Still, you keep your eyes shut and continue your breathing for what seems like a long, long time, though it's not, and you try to undo the memories so they're no longer painful, though you know they will be again. And when you open your eyes, you catch Henry's glance for a second, a second of understanding, a subdued second, while you realize that Henry had memories too, and you wonder about them...
However, this American is usually an unwitting tool of America's colonial goals, of its official modernization effort. He goes about his work with no conception of its implications for Lao nationalism. Even when he has no part of it, he cannot undo the damage done by the American war effort nor can he even rectify the image of the American oppressor. And what if he could? He only serves to divert the enthusiasm of the people from their only realistic source of security...
Diplomacy comes into light because Meselson must work closely with the very people he is trying to undo in Washington; that he has accomplished as much as he has in limiting chemical and biological warfare is something of a miracle...
...inside and out. Sanders Theatre under the soothing light of a winter moon, three views of the Square, another three of the Charles, two charming sketches of the one and only Harvard Yard, the second of which done up in lacy valentine. If you have the tenacity to carefully undo the book's binding quite a few of its pages could even be said to be all too suitable for framing...