Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intricate collecting and disbursement system runs right up the organization ladder to COSVN, and vouchers are required for all expenditures, adding to the snowstorm of paper circulating inside the V.C. administration. Corruption is dealt with severely, but it is persistently present. At least one tax collector in Dinh Tuong told the Allies that he was chosen "because my family was rich and the Front did not have to worry about whether I would flee with the cash...
Even more frustrating and productive of angry, spontaneous violence is the inability of many Negroes to climb the economic and social ladder. The mode of existence that deaf, dumb, and often blind whites have often unthinkingly forced on them makes "self-starting" frequently impossible. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, a book that has gained status as a sociological document, suggests that it is natural for many Negroes in the ghettos to drift into bitterness and search for constanct kicks...
...panels. Styles be came baroque, subjects sly and secular, with folk tales and local gossip pre dominant. One panel, dated 1890, may have been done by an artist who knew his subject all too well. It shows a red-shirted farmer, holding a beehive, as he falls from a ladder that has been charged by a bull. One can almost hear the angry buzz...
...years, and until recently made up the vast majority of the population. To Arabs, the Israelis are newcomers who in a generation or two wrested the land away from them. For the Moslems, too, Palestine has sacred connotations: tradition holds that the Prophet visited Heaven by ascending a ladder of light from the spot that is now marked by the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem...
...local prisons, but a so absorb new perspectives and perceptions. Their doubts about the "system" thus led them to seek wisdom from those who had been kicked out of it, the men and women who had been denied a place in that great race up the middle odalss ladder and who had learned to get along without it. It was less a rejection of the old values and goals than a concern for searching out new alternatives, less a need to avoid being middle class (which most of them could not do anyway) than for remaining receptive to adventures...