Word: himalayan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Class Love. Ancient attitudes have kept caste barriers Himalayan in height. So has the fact that, for all the official pronouncements, the government has done little to help. Over the past 15 years, spending on special economic-aid programs for harijans has totaled only $90 million, a meager 1.5% of all development outlays. Of the 115,000 students currently enrolled in Indian universities, only 2,300 are Untouchables. Scores of laws are on the statute books, but enforcing them is something else...
...Buchwald's first play, Sheep on the Runway, is a cartoon allegory. Flush with military hardware but low on brainpower, a group of bumbling, do-good-ing, fast-talking Americans lead a small, neutral Himalayan nation in Asia into a deadly heap of trouble. The difficulty with themes like this is that a playgoer is not quite sure whether he is experiencing the shock or the drone of recognition. An audience should never know as much as or more about a play than the playwright does...
...VICE-PRESIDENCY Programmed Diplomacy He was the highest-ranking U.S. official ever to visit the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, and he behaved accordingly. Never venturing beyond protocol, he was one of the few visitors who did not even attempt a peek at the famous erotic sculpture at Hanuman Doka temple. "It's not really his sort of thing," explained a member of his party. At one point, he praised Nepal's unique village-assembly system of government and what it could mean "for the future of India." But that geographic slip aside, Vice President Spiro Agnew...