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...Korea's first civilian president since General Park Chung Hee staged a coup in 1961 and established military authoritarian rule, has issued a sweeping rebuke of the practice of naemul since taking office earlier this year. In a cascade of reform legislation, Kim has attempted to put the practice of naemul out of commission for good...

Author: By Jay Kim, | Title: Greasing Korean Business | 11/2/1993 | See Source »

...Sceung-Hee Jeon, a first-year graduate studentstudying in Lamont, was more focused. "I have tostudy. I have to prepare for French. But I'drather be outside...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Summer Returns To Harvard | 10/9/1993 | See Source »

...When any Schollar is able to Read Tully or such like classical Latin Author ex tempore, & make and speak true Latin in verse and prose suo (up aiunt) Marte, and decline perfectly the paradigmes of Nounes and verbes in ye Greeke tongue, then may hee be admitted into Ye College, nor shall any claime admission before such qualifications...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYING IT BY THE RULES, COLONIAL STYLE | 7/10/1992 | See Source »

...York City, which said drawl-and-twang music would never acquire a mass audience. Country music was, after all, the sort of rube industry that made a vamp out of the cowboy by putting him in rhinestones and that churned out corn pone-ography like TV's Hee Haw, the show where banjo pickers and celebrity fiddlers would pop out of a field to joke about henpecked husbands and lazy cousins. Worse, the last time country flashed across the national consciousness, it was propelled by the 1980 movie Urban Cowboy, starring a mechanical bull and John Travolta. The crowd that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Country Rocks | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

Actually, the country music lover long ago abandoned the Southern holler for the middle-class suburbia of satellite dishes that politicians like to call the heartland. (Appropriately, the cornfield on the set of Hee Haw was recently transformed into a mall.) Republicans have understood this ever since Richard Nixon became the first President to visit the Grand Ole Opry in 1974. George Bush campaigned with country music stars Loretta Lynn and Peggy Sue, and made a pilgrimage to Nashville last year for the Country Music Association Awards. In many ways, the voters Bush was after are those who make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Country Rocks | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

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