Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best way to earn a lot of money, Ed says, is to be a lawyer--and if he doesn't get into law school, he will feel seriously set back. "I better succeed, that's all--it's so deep in me," he says. So far he has succeeded by going to Harvard and leading a kind of double life when he goes home to his old friends, but for the time being he likes it this way because he's got the best of each...
Whether they live in a city housing project, a tract development or deep in the piney woods, these Americans are, for the most part, culturally disfranchised. They were raised on the old American popular culture, on the myth of the individual who is the master of his own fate, truckles to no man or institution, and whose possibilities are as limitless as a Great Plains horizon. Now, however, employers, unions, governments regulate their lives. Mortgage obligations and even rising Social Security deductions hem them in. The open road, down which escape always seems possible, has become a featureless eight-lane...
Most of Wednesday and Thursday, candidates stand four-deep around the job-listing board. Others sit tensely on the fringes of the interview area. A pleasant-faced Indiana University candidate confesses that she has managed only two interviews so far, and this is her second year at submitting resumes. "What's your field?" she whispers to another hopeful. "Restoration," he replies, "but this interview is not in my field." "Mine either," she replies, "I'm a medievalist...
Americans, Aman says, are "generally very poor at swearing. They just don't know how to do it, and usually fall back on the same 24 words or so." What talent there is in the U.S. apparently is found in rural areas and the Deep South. "There you get concrete vivid images that come out of a strong oral tradition-Billy Carter is a good example. City dwellers' vocabularies are very anemic...
...last week S.I.L. missions faced a serious rebuff in one of their most successful fieldwork areas-among tribes deep in the Amazon jungles of Brazil. The natives are not hostile-far from it. Forty-four field teams, mostly married couples, backed by five support bases equipped with light planes and sophisticated radio gear, have been peaceably at work for 22 years. But the government of Brazil has suddenly announced that in 1978 it will not renew permits for S.I.L. field teams to work in remote areas administered by the National Indian Foundation. No official explanation has been offered...