Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Saigon fell, he was a colonel in the Vietnamese medical corps and had no alternative but to flee. His son Tuyen was close to military age and Bui, fearing the boy would be "drafted or used by the Communists," brought him along with his new family. Three other young children stayed behind with their mother, Bui's first wife. Bui's own mother and a brother who teaches school in Saigon also refused to leave. Once in the U.S., Dr. Bui encountered only one major setback. The first time he tried, he failed his national licensing exam...
...Government, motherhood and free enterprise have given the nation a Christmas tree with such sublime harmony it is a true wonder to behold. The tree was ordered out of a seed catalogue by a son-in-law. As an infant it was tenderly watered by four grandchildren. At age six the blue spruce (Picea pungens) was a Mother's Day gift to Mrs. William E. Myers of York, Pa. Transplanted to her front yard, it was smothered with loving neglect for 15 years. No fertilizer. No watering. No insecticide. No pruning...
...tough. It was a face that inspired love but also demanded respect-and the operative word was "demanded." Golda was of that generation of pioneers who built the Jewish state; she served as its Prime Minister through five years and one war. When she died last week at the age of 80, from the complications of lymphoma, an illness she had kept secret for twelve years, she still ranked high on any list of the world's most admired women. The dumpy, doughty lady with her drab dresses, hair strewn with gray, and ever present cigarette was a figure...
That much they certainly get. As any delegate knows, no amount of packaging, commercialization, overscheduling or professional planning can squeeze the raw, sweaty, boozy, friendly humanity out of a convention. Such a celebration is well suited to an age when life has too often been stripped of drama, romance and the sense of limitless possibility. Says Rutgers Anthropologist Lionel Tiger (Men in Groups): "The convention is an effort, like the fair of old or the harvest feast, to generalize one's experience, to making something more meaningful...
...crudest slaughter of a people since Hitler's time, but the evidence had to be pieced together from the individual accounts of fleeing Cambodians. The events they describe overlap, so that estimates of the dead vary widely and thus lack credibility. Without the witness of photographs in this age of the camera, the enormity of what has happened can only be guessed at and has yet to be comprehended by the rest of the world...