Word: jens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he has become a victim of irrationality and self-righteousness, he clings like some Chinese Billy Budd to the one bit of certainty he knows. At the moment of his unjust death, he shouts, "Long live the Communist Party! Long live Chairman Mao!" Another less innocent victim is Jen Hsiu-lan, a proud, fanatical woman revolutionary who loses out in one of the revolution's murky factional twists. Rather than submit to the humiliation of selfcriticism, she drowns herself in a cesspool...
...Williams points us back to pagan nature with the Hemlock family -Daddy Tim, hunter, farmer, "maker of things"; Mother Eugenia, keeper of the kitchen garden and hearth and the two Hemlock children, Son Arn, 9, and Daughter Jen, 7. This is the family primeval, whose only contact with civilization is the annual visit of the Traveler, who trades lead shot, gunpowder, needles, salt and flint for the Hemlocks' superbly crafted knives and moccasins...
Corrupting Culture. Jen gets lost in the valley while looking for a cow -and Arn goes after her. He proves himself a doughty little camper as he saves his sister from freezing and starvation. The children then tramp from one cliffhanger to the next before rejoining their despairing parents...
Land Mine. The stories-or rather, the collage of perceptions-are told by a woman whose last name is Fain and whose first name may be Jennifer (one friend, at least, calls her Jen). Success seems to have fallen on her from a great height. She traipses obligingly but glumly through a succession of jobs usually thought to be desirable: newspaper reporter, foundation consultant, college teacher, congressional staff worker. She is clearly getting somewhere; where, exactly, and whether it is a place worth being are answers that elude her. "Things," she muses, "have changed very much, several times, since...
Huang attended the February meeting with Jen-Tze Liu, a prominent Boston-based official of the Nationalist Chinese government...