Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always a virtue. One moral danger of Viet Nam may be that it begins to convince the nation that the violent sacrifice of its sons, like the perennial feeding of Athenian youths to the Minotaur, is in the inevitable order of things. Certainly the Vietnamese themselves, their homeland a battleground for more than 20 years, have long since been infected by such a stupefying sense of human affairs. There is the chill of a death beyond the sum of the individual deaths creeping up through a society for which war becomes routine...
ALICE'S RESTAURANT. In 1967 it was not The Graduate, but Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde which had something to say about those Americans who are lost in their homeland. And this year it is not Easy Rider, but Alice's Restaurant...
...large measure second-class citizens. They feel that they lack economic equality with the country's Jews. More important is their psychological problem. Referring to 1948, many Arabs say: "We went to sleep a majority -and woke up a minority." They feel like exiles in their own homeland...
...kept it to himself. But the word eventually leaked out of the rash of requests for asylum. By Christmas, the last day of the tour, the tourists were sharing anguished doubts whether they should go through with it or return to the familiarity-and growing repression-of their homeland. Pointing to some of the eleven children on the tour, one man said: "Some of us parents are too old to really ever be happy in a new country. We are doing it for our children. They must have the chance." A blonde, her eyes red from weeping, worried about...