Word: homelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist terrorism is carried out at random. Thousands of Vietnamese have died in well-planned massacres. In 1967, Montagnard tribesmen, who had fled the Communists a year earlier, were set upon in their new home at Dak Son 75 miles northeast of Saigon. Six hundred Viet Cong, 60 of them armed with flamethrowers, invaded the village, setting fire to the huts and shooting the inhabitants as they fled their burning homes, then executing 60 survivors of the assault. Altogether, 252 unarmed Montagnards, nearly all of them women and children, were murdered, 100 kidnaped, 500 listed as missing...
...through Intrepid's window as the craft settled toward a landing, dust kicked up by the descent engine begins to obscure the lunar landscape. It finally blots out the landing site completely, vividly demonstrating why Conrad had to make an instrument landing. Another strip, shot on the trip home, shows a dazzling eclipse of the sun caused by the earth itself...
...about the talks. If anything, the bluster suggested a split among Soviet leaders over the possible effects of the arms talks-not a planned effort to sidetrack SALT. In fact, the outlook was that after another week or so of sessions in Helsinki, the two teams would go home to prepare for more substantive negotiations...
...those timeless, unchanging communities that hide behind hills all over Europe. Even there, he was something of an outsider: a U.S. citizen by virtue of his father's naturalization years before in America. The 30-year disparity in his parents' ages did not contribute to a settled home life. Papa Minichiello, a stern disciplinarian, confined his son at home nights. The one time Raff defied this parental decree he was soundly beaten...
...also fascinated by bird calls, animal cries, and the whispering of leaves. Conversations between his dogs were carefully transcribed onto music paper. Czech Conductor Karel Ančerl, now music director of the Toronto Symphony, recalls the first time he saw Janáček: "I was returning home from a party with a few friends. A full moon lighted the park, and suddenly we saw a stocky man in a long overcoat talking to some birds. He was saying, 'Please talk to me, speak to me. I must hear your music, I must have it.' When...