Word: archipelagos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Broadway is a teeming mass of Hispanic shoppers. Record-store loudspeakers blare Mexican hits: Juro que Nunca Volveré (I Swear I'll Never Return), Mi Fracaso (My Downfall). The Orpheum Theater, where Al Jolson once sang in blackface, screens Spanish-language dubbings of anglo hits. An archipelago of taco and burrito carts dots the street. Stores and merchandise stands tout their wares: vestidos, tocadiscos, muebles (clothing, phonographs, furniture). Farther east, on Whittier Boulevard, young Hispanics express themselves with a unique form of Saturday night fever known as "low riding"-cruising in ornately decorated autos equipped with hydraulic pumps...
...with recourse to all-American rhetoric instead of specialist knowledge (or even the atlas and history book) can only hinder, perhaps fatally, those campaigning for freer societies in the East. Avoiding the simplicity of error is the best monument to the victims, past, present and future, of the Gulag Archipelago...
...opponents felt that the U.S. stance on human rights was a crude intervention in Manila's domestic affairs. Local businessmen complain that their coconut oil is heavily taxed when it enters American ports, while a similar product from Malaysia is imported under low preferential tariffs. Meanwhile, the archipelago is awash with American pop culture. Rock 'n' roll is so ubiquitous that the radio stations have been ordered to play at least one Filipino-language song every hour...
...Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙ American Caesar, William Manchester Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie Robert Kennedy and His Times, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ∙ The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙ The Illusion of Technique, William Barrett ∙ The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen