Word: hammerism
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About as crazy as the good old days and Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul, and Mary, and Joan Baez "This land is your land, this land is..." the Ameri-can Indian's communal estate. "If I had a hammer, I'd..." get a sickle. "Any day now, any day now, I shall..." explode! And we memorized the words. Ted Mack brought us The New Chad minstrels with the same voice that brought us Geritol. Even the little girl down the street was learning how to play "folk guitar" and guys with guitars on their backs were wanderin' clear 'round the country...
...first U.S. tour in five years at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House this month, is to make folk dance seem almost aristocratic in spirit. What country commoners could ever attempt, let alone master, those split-second polka whirls and partner changes, those muscle-straining priziadkas done at trip-hammer speed, those leaping, Olympic-height splits? This is dancing performable only by a gifted few-a disciplined and rhythmic elite of superbly talented athletes...
...things: cash and the confidence of investors. Other groups, including rival foreign-based funds, have been dickering to gain control of I.O.S. and provide just that. Last week, in the Paris headquarters of the French Rothschilds, Guy de Rothschild chaired a secret meeting of European and U.S. bankers to hammer out a proposal for taking over I.O.S. Rothschild's interest was more than the noblesse oblige of a patrician banker. His Banque Rothschild was an underwriter of I.O.S.'s $54 million stock issue last fall, and the Rothschild reputation for astuteness has not been helped by the stock...
Wrong Village? How could American troops behave that way? Hammer contends that the attack was partly a mistake; misreading their confusing maps, Charlie Company hit a hamlet occupied only by civilians, instead of another that was near by and known to be held by tough troops of the Viet Cong's 48th Battalion. When the G.I.s met no resistance, they did not stop shooting. Both writers quote members of the company who claim that Captain Medina ordered them to kill everything in the village, and some who declare he took part in the killing himself. Both books quote soldiers...
...Hammer, especially, views the tragedy in a broader perspective. He argues, surprisingly, that for most rural Vietnamese the years of warfare have rarely affected daily living. Only the nature of village tax collectors changed with the change of regimes-from the French, years ago, to various Saigon governments. There was not even much difference when the Viet Cong began controlling the village. The big change came, Hammer contends, when massive American forces transformed guerrilla warfare into a conflict in which killing became impersonal-with napalm attacks, free-fire zones and search-and-destroy missions like the one conducted...