Word: hollander
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...South Holland...
With those words this honest and absorbing account ends. Van de Wetering is now the head of a textile business in Holland, though he does not say so in the book. There is, in fact, not a word about his life from 1959 to the present in The Empty Mirror. It would have been interesting to learn whether he did in deed stay awake, but the silence seems right. A book about Zen should end with a question...
Sadat called for preliminary planning after initial Egyptian victories in the October war, and Mashour took the cue to solicit bids from salvage firms in France, Italy, Holland, West Germany and Yugoslavia. Mashour is close to signing a contract, probably with a Dutch-West German-Yugoslav consortium. The first job of the clearers will be to rid the banks of their lethal carpet of mines, and that step alone should take a month. Then divers will go into the water to pinpoint the positions and depths of wrecks. Silt, once thought to be a major barrier to reopening, will...
...demoralized, corrupted and embittered, as a simple defeat would not have. Viet Nam is the name of a catastrophe to the spirit. A fatally casual adventure-in-excess has done to America, he argues, what crossing the Rhine did to the Roman Empire in 6 A.D., what invading Holland did to Spain in the 16th century. The final consequence is a "devaluation in national identity," a collective loss in self-esteem that has left Americans profoundly confused about just what to do next...
...queuing for petrol with head bowed -the difference, metaphorically speaking, between being "bloody, but unbowed" and bloody and bowed. At a time when such a sickeningly large part of the Western world (the U.S. excluded, but my own country unfortunately included) is facing toward the East on its stomach, Holland is like a shining light...