Word: luk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is much more to Kieu than escapist melodrama. Written by a renowned Vietnamese classicist named Nguyen Du (1766-1820), the poem in Vietnamese has a wide range of wordplay. The meter is a flowing iambic called luk-bat, full of rhyming and nearly as easy to memorize as a song. Much of this is unavoidably lost in the otherwise excellent English translation by Huynh Sanh Thong, a Vietnamese scholar who has lived in the U.S. all his adult life. Jaded Western readers who may find Kieu's plight unconvincing can still enjoy the poem for its language, especially...
Died. György Lukács, 86, Communist theoretician; in Budapest. Though often called "the greatest Marxist since Karl Marx," the courtly ideologist still managed to offend both Lenin and Stalin. Lukacs eloquently criticized the rigidity of Soviet doctrine, then, while in exile in Moscow, was forced by Stalin to denounce his own early works. He survived periodic purges to join in the chorus of denunciation later directed against Stalin. A champion of such Communist heresies as pluralism and literary freedom, Lukács took part in the 1956 Hungarian uprising. He managed to avoid punishment and resumed...