Word: ager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well over 250,000 that has sacrificed its native culture and heritage only to be caught in a bureaucratic netherworld. Violated in a dozen ways every day, people snap under the strain. Repeatedly raped by pirates during a ten-day crossing of the Gulf of Thailand, one Vietnamese teen-ager spent her first days ashore maniacally screaming. More often the break is less dramatic. Once I sat through a painful conversation in which a well-meaning German explained to a Vietnamese peasant family why it simply would not be able to adjust to life in industrial Frankfurt. Previously rejected...
...just inside the fence, singing or chanting anti-nuke slogans, or chatting amiably with police while waiting to be taken to precinct headquarters in Yaphank for booking. "If any of you people would like a piece of gum I have some in my back pocket," offered one teen-ager, her bands bound behind her back. "I can't get it, of course...
...sticky sweet. In Stella Marts, for instance, she played a double role: a crippled heiress and a love-obsessed slavey who commits murder so that the heiress and her lover (whom the slavey also loves) can find happiness. In the Dickensian Sparrows, she played a clever and persistent teen-ager who frees the inmates of an orphanage from sadistic bondage. It was a strong role for a forceful woman. Even in pictures like Pollyanna or Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Pickford showed wit, endearing mischievousness and sheer spunk...
...love it here," he says. "Each track has got a history to it, and the people are crazy about racing." Later this year he plans to ride in Japan, and he talks of returning to the U.S. for a while and then going back to Europe, where the teen-ager from Kentucky already feels like a man of the world...
DIED. Max Hayward, 54, English scholar who translated Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, and works by Solzhenitsyn and other Russian authors banned or banished in their own country; of cancer; in Oxford, England. A natural linguist, Hayward taught himself Russian as a teen-ager by plowing through an untranslated tome on gypsies. Between studying at Oxford in the '40s and returning there to teach in 1956, he spent two years in the British embassy in Moscow, where he developed a passionate concern for the literary culture stricken by Stalin's purges. He eventually became, said a colleague...