Word: hao
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...home to her and she dispenses pocket money to him. She pays all the big bills. If they eat out, it is generally the wife who discreetly picks up the restaurant tab. When she throws a temper tantrum, her husband speaks of "flying saucers" at home. In the Hoa Hao sect, a wronged or thwarted wife has been known to tie her husband's hair to a bedpost while he is sleeping, then wake him up and beat him until her wishes are granted...
...their characterizations through a series of ritualistic actions and formal gestures (the closing of a door, for example, is indicated by bringing the hands together). Although shrill and piercing to Western ears, the singing is delicately modulated and full of virtuoso flourishes, which Chinese audiences applaud with shouts of "Hao!" Realism, not Ritual. After the Communist takeover in 1949, Peking opera, like most of the arts, was subjected to "selective reform." Still, until recently, a limited repertory of traditional Peking operas was being performed regularly in most of China's theaters. Then Madame Mao got busy undermining the works...
...Communists in a small area would come to terms, make their own local truces and work out their own modus vivendi for governing their localities. Viet Nam is in fact less a nation than an assembly of separatist, often fiercely competitive sects and peoples, such as the Hoa Hao, the Cao Dai, the Montagnards and, of course, the Catholics and Buddhists. Granting such subsocieties home rule would strengthen local government and security and also give them a larger stake in supporting a central government tolerant of their autonomy...
Trinh Quoc Khanh, leader of the Hoa Hao sect and President Thieu's first choice as his running mate last year: "I have met many Americans who say that they have no right to get involved in our internal affairs. But in fact they are involved. And if they are sincere, they must get even more deeply involved and help South Viet Nam remedy past political mistakes. The Americans cannot let government leaders damage their anti-Communist goals. They must look at Viet Nam much like a business. If you invest money in a firm, you have some...
...complexity-a characteristic that, ironically, has discouraged and dismayed many Americans. The people are fragmented into a multiplicity of racial, regional, religious and political groups and sects. It is quite possible that in most election districts, the candidate of the dominant group-Buddhist or Catholic, Cao Dai or Hoa Hao, Southern native or Northern refugee-would beat the Communist...