Word: huts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gauze Trousers. Curled like a shrimp around the Indo-Chinese Peninsula, South Viet Nam is washed by 900 miles of the South China Sea. Behind the sandy dunes of the north are tiers of flat plains leading back to the highlands where 300,000 Moi hut dwellers search the thick forests for white elephants as good-luck charms. In the south are the hard-working Annamese peasants, squatting under conical hats of palm leaves in the brimming Mekong Delta marshes to plant the rice that is South Viet Nam's chief source of sustenance and a major export. The delta...
...been France. This lively first novel skillfully blends both traditions with a strong individualistic note of its own and suggests that U.S. readers may have been missing something. Beautifully translated by Edouard Roditi, the book tells the story of young Memed who grows up in a mud-walled village hut in a remote province of Anatolia. Recklessly brave and a deadly marksman, Memed battles his environment and a succession of superb villains. Chief among them: sly, goat-bearded Abdi Agha, who owns five villages and combines the brutality of Simon Legree with the buffoonery of Captain Hook. Readers will have...
Several other PBH committees deal with educational problems in Cambridge. While a tutors committee assists poor students in local high schools, the special education program offers remedial reading courses at PBH itself. Harvard undergraduate teachers (HUT) help in classroom teaching, instruct seminars for gifted students, lead extra-curricular activities at Cambridge High and Latin School...
More than any other man in the Presidium, Polyansky typifies the new generation of technocratic leaders who are empirical in their outlook and have little time for dogma. The party biography supplies him with the best of credentials. He was born in a poor peasant's hut in the Ukraine on Nov. 7, 1917-the day the Bolsheviks took power. Polyansky missed the confusions and disorders of the civil war and forced collectivization, graduated from the Kharkov Agricultural Institute, then rose steadily through the party's administrative ranks. He is a brash and bouncing extravert. At Kremlin functions...
...night comes frenzy. Quinn's Tahitian Hut swarms with people eager for entertainment after a hard day at the beach. The favorite dances, the otea and the tamure, are frankly erotic, but with all the hip quaking and knee knocking, much more innocent and enjoyable to watch than Elvis Presley. When Quinn's closes, the natives and travelers move on with their guitars and their cases of Hinano (the local beer) to other places-often in the middle of the road-to continue their happy partying. After that, there is always the possibility that everybody will want...