Word: buddhists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heather McHugh's delicate craftsmanship allows her to write about a girl reflecting, in bed in winter, without degenerating to the Cliffie poem genre which leaves that undergraduate aftertaste to most college literary magazines. David Rubenstein successfully conceives a "Buddhist in a Ford," and John Black '38 interweaves his images into a haunting organic whole...
...special effort to rejoin their families. Relative visited relative, threading through thousands of firecrackers popping and fizzing in the moonless night. The Year of the Monkey had begun, and every Vietnamese knew that it was wise to make merry while there was yet time; in the twelve-year Buddhist lunar cycle, 1968 is a grimly inauspicious year...
Guerrilla Guides. In the An Quang Buddhist pagoda, the Communists set up a fully equipped command post for the attack. Shortly after midnight, the raiders assembled in units ranging from small suicide squads to well-armed company-size teams, and were led to their targets by local Communist guides. Some were dressed in neat, white button-down shirts and khakis, others in parts of ARVN uniforms or ragtag sports clothes. Dark clouds hung over the city, and only an occasional Jeep moved quickly through the eerie silence. Warned to expect something through captured enemy documents, military police had donned flak...
...their arms with the Communists and help overthrow the Thieu government. In Hué and Saigon, the Communists announced the formation of revolutionary Committees of the Alliance of National and Peace Forces. But throughout South Viet Nam there were few takers. In Danang, when a Viet Cong rose at a Buddhist Tet service with a pistol in one hand and a bullhorn in the other, bidding the crowd to support the "uprising," the Buddhists seized him and his two comrades and turned them over to the South Vietnamese police...
...trial at Buddhist living was the latest experiment in learning at California's far-out, freedom-loving Pacific High School. A private school ten miles south of Palo Alto (tuition is scaled to income, averages $900 a term), Pacific High tries to stimulate youths who found conventional education too restrictive or boring with the tempting lure of total freedom. Students choose their own hours, classes and teachers and even sit on the board of trustees. At the end of a course, they get gentle advisory evaluations rather than grades -and are encouraged to tell their teachers precisely what they...