Word: digging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Earth burial is most common, and often most bizarre. The Jivaro of Peru and Ecuador sit the dead man, head in hands, on a bench, and bury him beneath the floor of his own home, which is then abandoned. The Cuna people dig deep pits, roof them over and bury their dead in hammocks swinging gently underground. Air burial is widespread. The Sioux have been known to bury their dead in trees. In Tibet, the corpse is chopped up and tossed to the vultures...
Just how deep Chester Bowles will be able to dig in his bag of ideas in his new job will depend on Jack Kennedy and Dean Rusk. It could be very deep, for he will be, after all, No. 2 in the State Department...
Rice & Beans. Explaining Y.D.I.'s methods, Pete Thomas says: "You don't get anywhere by antagonizing a kid. You got to feel their feelings of anger and uncertainty, dig? That way-out feeling of wanting to hurt and not caring who. This is why I think Y.D.I, is so great-it's the arroz y habichuelas [rice and beans] the kids need...
Before the series, the competitors will have to dig out their 12-foot Inter-Club dinghies, which the recent blizzard allegedly buried under more than a foot of snow. It will be a test of sorts at least for the boats--a class that the yacht club has been considering for possible purchase next spring...
...army, apparently in deference to the large Mexican movie market, is presented as a body of sensitive young men who look as though they all have college degrees and suffer every time they pull a trigger. And at one point, just in case the teen-agers don't dig all that ancient history. Singer Avalon jumps up and belts out a little rock 'n' roll...