Word: lotus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam's constitutional assembly campaign was in full swing last week amid a blaze of huge red and yellow Vietnamese flags and a blare of sound trucks. Up and down the narrow nation, posters blossomed bearing the arcane symbols of the candidates' slates: the Lamp, the Lotus Blossom, the Cock & Hand, the Woman with a Basket. Declared banners and placards in Sai gon: TO VOTE IS TO BEGIN BUILDING DEMOCRACY...
...Those who are not already on the electoral rolls are urged to register and to file complaints if their names are left off local voting lists. Citizens are told how to cast ballots; for the benefit of illiterates, candidates will be identified by such symbols as water buffaloes and lotus flowers. The narrator even offers advice on sizing up the more than 540 aspirants running for the 117-member assembly: "Let us question the candidates on what they have done for the country in the past, as well as what they plan to do for the people once they...
...victory in last week's Dutch Grand Prix was his third for 1966. It practically sewed up a third world title for the tall Aussie, and it came at the direct expense of Clark, who has been plagued by chronic mechanical failures in his 2.2-liter Lotus-Climax, has yet to win a race this season. Driving a more powerful (by 55 h.p.) 3-liter Brabham-Repco that he designed and built himself, Jack allowed Clark to take the lead, then forced such a fast pace that the cooling system in Jimmy's overworked Lotus gave up. Clark...
...Shoe. The object of supreme adoration was the bound foot itself. It was caressed with an intensity and ingenuity that often make this volume read like a Chinese Kinsey report. The cult of the lotus inspired a corollary cult of the shoe. Many a young man slept with a slipper that belonged to his beloved-indeed, an elderly Chinese ambassador to Moscow made no secret of the fact that he carried a trunk of tiny shoes and, as Levy puts it, "privately amused himself with them...
...followers included abolition of footbinding in a portmanteau program of feminine emancipation. Even then, millions of women obdurately refused to unbind-and not only because letting the feet out was almost as painful as binding them up. They simply feared that if they lost the lotus they would lose their man. As it turned out, most men were secretly pleased to have a wife who could also stand up and do housework...