Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jimmy did, of course, finally get that first novel finished. "Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else," he later told the New York Times. "I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father." His father -- stepfather, actually -- had been a Harlem preacher so possessed by anger that he regularly beat his children. "His father's arm, rising and falling, might make him cry," Jimmy wrote in the autobiographical Mountain, "yet his father could never be entirely the victor, for John cherished something that...
...Mountain brought Jimmy a considerable success when it was finally published in 1953, and that enabled him to put together a collection of his searing essays, Notes of a Native Son ("Each generation is promised more than it will get: which creates, in each generation, a furious, bewildered rage"). Then came Giovanni's Room, a rather purple novel about homosexuality. And then, in 1957, when French friends kept asking him to "explain Little Rock," where the U.S. Army had been summoned to escort nine black children to school through screaming mobs of whites, Jimmy finally decided "that it would...
...warm and intense and funny, and anyone who gained his friendship valued it highly. That included an Englishwoman who once lent him her typewriter because he had pawned his own. Jimmy did not return it because, he said, he was in the midst of Go Tell It on the Mountain and "had to finish the chapter...
...though debt is a new growth industry in Japan, the average family's ratio of obligations to savings declined last year. Reason: the Japanese are putting more money into Tokyo's surging stock market, which, despite recent setbacks, has raised Japan's mountain of savings to new heights...
...exiled Vietnamese last summer launched a quixotic campaign. Part of a movement calling itself the National United Front for the Liberation of Viet Nam, they stealthily crossed the jungles of Laos last July, making for the Central Highlands of their homeland. There they hoped to link up with mountain tribesmen opposed to the Communist government and begin a guerrilla war to overthrow Hanoi. Each commando carried an automatic rifle and 200 rounds of ammunition. Beyond that, the battalion had only some rocket-propelled grenade launchers and machine guns. In August, a day's march from their goal, they were attacked...