Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people of Hoaimy, the Communists must have looked like winners, but the Viet Cong detachment blundered from the start. It levied taxes even heavier than those of Saigon-up to 50% of the rice harvest. The Reds preached class war, urging the poor peasants to hate the rich in a village that had no rich peasants and very few poor. The Communists also repeated the familiar line that helped bring down Diem: Roman Catholics discriminate against Buddhists. Since the few Catholics in the village lived just like everyone else, this argument got nowhere either. Next, the Reds closed the village...
GUGGENHEIM-Fifth Ave. at 89th. The work of Vincent Van Gogh: his Sunflowers and Cypresses, Harvest, Yellow House and Potato Eaters are among 120 oils, watercolors and drawings on loan from his nephew's unique collection. Through June...
GUGGENHEIM-Fifth Ave. at 89th. The work of Vincent Van Gogh: his Sunflowers and Cypresses, Harvest, Yellow House and Potato Eaters are among the 120 oils, watercolors and drawings on loan from his nephew's unique collection. Through June...
...Wapshot Chronicle is essentially a simple drama of destinies and moralities. Father Leander Wapshot's wonderful journal (found in a trunk in the attic) recites like a Greek chorus the ancient obligations to race and region. He had taught his sons to "fell a tree, sow, cultivate and harvest, save money, countersink a nail, make cider with a hand press, clean a gun, sail a boat, etc." But Leander was defeated in his patriarch's role when his ferryboat was beached by women and turned into a gift shoppe. Leander's two sons, Moses and Coverly, were...
Many children are now operating mathematically on a much higher plane than their contemporaries of a decade ago. Those of us who see what is happening from the inside believe we will soon reap a considerable harvest from our present efforts...