Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...graphic account of KCIA activity was related last week to TIME Chicago Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate by Jai Hyon Lee, a former South Korean cultural and press attaché in Washington. Lee fell out with the Park regime and was granted asylum in the U.S. in 1973. In that year, says Lee, now an associate professor of journalism at Western Illinois University, the KCIA effectively took over the South Korean embassy. KCIA men began to hold daily "orientation" sessions in which diplomats, says Lee, were directed "to organize businessmen" in support of the Park government and to "seduce Congressmen" with...
...Reich's own sex life, the hard news is that Reich did not have sex with another person until he was 43. The disclosure elicits a certain amount of sympathy, but his account of that first time-with a San Francisco male prostitute-reads a bit like one of those dated popular English novels in which the schoolmistress has a fleeting love affair during her holiday in Italy. It is difficult to imagine that Reich's lonely years and late-blooming sex life have not affected the way he looks at the world. This, however...
Empires rise and fall. Tribes, nations, peoples flourish and vanish. Customs and cultures evolve. Why? Is it God's will? Sheer chance? The power of greed? The pattern of history? All of the above is probably the safest answer. But even taking that much into account, argues University of Chicago Professor William McNeill, historians miss one of the prime catalysts in human history: infectious disease...
...deal with disease delayed the onset of the Enlightenment. After all, he writes, "A world where sudden and unexpected death remains a real and dreaded possibility . . . makes the idea that the universe is a great machine whose motions are regular, understandable, and even predictable, seem grossly inadequate to account for observed reality...
Chosen Route. In this account of his own autumnal days on Martha's Vineyard, Hough, with great skill and charm, approaches the pangs and pleasures of aging in ways that very much recall Walden's formula: keep track of housekeeping details and the transcendental homilies will take care of themselves. At home Hough's day still begins as it has for years, with a predawn walk to Edgartown's harbor light. Graham goes along but does not always agree to the route his master has chosen, and, like many Americans, has "a weakness for excavation...