Word: diem
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Perhaps the conundrum can be understood this way: we all try to live for the moment. But once carpe diem becomes the cliché of the day, it ceases to have any meaning, because we live in fear of not doing enough to live for now. You cannot live for today while thinking about whether you’re living well enough. Ultimately, even if you are living for the memories, you’ll be in for a big disappointment. Nostalgia is fickle, and try as you might to control what you remember, you’re bound...
...Parts of the global economy (e.g. big airlines) have gone into black holes, but there are also financial winners, among them, surprisingly, a few airlines - the low-cost carriers. While some consumers curb their spending, others have a more profligate sense of carpe diem. At a personal level, many people may be nicer to their kids, more suspicious of neighbors, willing to relinquish basic liberties in the name of security. Some have gained faith in a divine power above this earthly mess . . . or lost it completely...
DIED. DUONG VAN MINH, 86, Vietnamese general known as "Big Minh," who organized the 1963 coup to overthrow South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem; in Pasadena, Calif. Big Minh (so called in part for his 6-ft., 200-lb. size), believed to have ordered Diem's assassination--with two raised fingers of his right hand--went on to become the last President of South Vietnam...
...readily into the gregarious California life-style. Usually calm and direct, he can be stern at work (after being directed by him in a special, Fred Astaire gave him a bull whip), but he enjoys relaxing with a wide circle of friends. He and his wife-former Actress Peggy Diem, by whom he has a son and a daughter-shuttle between a Spanish-style home in Beverly Hills and a rented beach house at Malibu, where Yorkin occasionally dons an Archie Bunker sweatshirt and barbecues hot dogs for neighbors like the Henry Mancinis. Although, like Lear, he describes himself...
...with the Cold War in full swing, the U.S. was furious at the French for setting up a Southeast Asian "domino" to fall to the communist bloc, and set about reversing the decision. And they found a willing partner in the Bao Dai government, later led by Ngo Dien Diem, which had been set up by the French in the late '40s as a palatable alternative to Ho Chi Minh, and which wanted no part in national elections which the communists were bound to win. Both Washington and Diem rejected the Geneva agreement, and the U.S. poured...