Word: iddings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviets have come relatively late to the realization that tourism is an excellent way to win friends and earn foreign exchange, they are rapidly making up for lost time. At the moment, hotels in Moscow are booked sol id. But new hotels are going up everywhere, including Moscow's vast Russia Hotel, now partly open, to be completed this fall. It will be the world's largest, with 3,182 air-conditioned rooms. Imitating the U.S.'s interstate highway system, Russia is building 39,000 miles of two-and four-lane paved roads-punctuated...
Suffocating & Ugly. Whatever the Ríoses may suffer from-and they are all desperately poor-it is clearly not repression. Anthropologist-Author Oscar Lewis found them "closer to the expression of an unbridled id than any other people I have studied." As in his earlier experiments with total sociology -Five Families, The Children of Sánchez-Lewis lets his subjects tell their story into a tape recorder. In Sanchez, this approach produced something very much like poetry, as a fiercely proud, slum-dwelling Mexican family exposed their seams and their hearts to Lewis' patient, uncritical machine...
...wreaking a kind of harsh vengeance as the day's operation burned homes, "wounded three women, killed one baby, wounded one Marine and netted four prisoners-four old men who could not answer questions put to them in English. Four old men who had no idea what an ID card...
...become uninhabited, but one feels a special sense of community and understanding which makes the act so much more enjoyable." Another student mentioned that he became particularly aware of conflicting drives while he was on LSD, especially the sexual drive. As he described it in Freudian terms: "the id surfaced and discharged its libido...
...billets, and at the American commissary, guards used mirrors mounted on long poles to look underneath vehicles driven by Vietnamese. In the Caravelle Hotel, Vietnamese guests of Americans heading for the top-floor restaurant had to submit to searches in the lobby, and were required to leave their ID cards behind with the concierge. A dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed by Westmoreland on all U.S. military personnel in Saigon...