Word: easts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anywhere in the world, the Gaza Strip hardly seems to qualify as a territorial prize. The 25-mile-long seaside sliver of formerly Egyptian-run territory is more thickly settled than The Netherlands; it is more crowded with problems than any other area occupied by Israel in the Middle East war. Some 60% of its 350,000 inhabitants are refugees who lost their lands to the Israelis in 1948. Most of them live on the dole in eight refugee camps, sitting in the shade of their huts and shuffling sad-eyed from one day to the next. Their artificial economy...
...author with Marshall McLuhan of The Medium is the Massage. She is collaborating with Buckminster Fuller on a future issue in which each article will be designed to fold into a geodesic dome or other geometric construction. Also in the works is an issue devoted to the Far East, with scrolls and screens scented with incense, and a wilderness issue, complete with a wild-food recipe kit for gourmet survivors...
Hyndman's interest in the meeting of East and West began in junior high school, when he wrote a paper on the Gandhara art of India. Last summer he studied Chinese at Vermont's Middlebury College; there he met some South Vietnamese who opened his eyes to the cultural differences between the U.S. and Asia. By the time the U.S. began the heavy bombing of North Viet Nam, Hyndman was thoroughly disenchanted with the nation's war policy. He is now firmly convinced that U.S. military power offers the South Vietnamese "a worse alternative than Viet Cong control." From...
Friendly Firing. Like much of the modern business in the Middle East, Trans-Med was born because of the oil industry. Abu-Haidar, graduating from the American University of Beirut, decided against a career in medicine, went to work as a junior clerk for the Arabian American Oil Co. He was eventually named head of the transportation department, given the job of providing food and equipment for Aramco crews prospecting along the Persian Gulf. Trucks carrying the supplies either bogged down in the desert or were stopped by tribesmen; ships sometimes went aground. Abu-Haidar decided to switch to airplanes...
...very first page, when Leo suffers a heart attack onstage. From then on, the reader must bear with him through a convalescence plagued by interminable flashbacks. There is a Harlem boyhood that includes an incestuous homosexual interlude with his older brother. This is followed by a pre-hippie East Village adolescence during which Leo begins to forge a lasting black-brother, white-sister relationship with Barbara King, a Kentucky-born actress. And finally comes the highly satisfactory love affair with Christopher, a natty young militant black cat. The most important thematic progression to be noted in this work is that...