Word: opium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basic bond between her and the brothers is intense, and very Asian. In the past, South Viet Nam's women deliberately gave their husbands money to dissipate on opium and prostitutes in order to control them better. During the Indo-China war, thousands of men worked openly for the French, but cases of women collaborators were rare. Today women control much of South Viet Nam's wealth, and in her home a wife is called noi tuong, or "general of the interior." Matriarchal strength is compounded by the traditional Vietnamese view of the family as monolithic and united against...
...always appreciated, being regarded not only as hotels but as a cultural transplant from America. The local "atmosphere" sometimes misfires. Spaniards laughed the peasant-garbed waiters at Madrid's Castellana Hilton right back into tie and tails, and Hilton had to change the name of the Opium Den bar in his Hong Kong hotel after the Chinese took offense (it is now simply The Den). The popular BBC television satire show, That Was the Week That Was, opened fire at Hilton with a mock Bible lesson: "Brethren, in the beginning there was darkness upon the face of the earth...
...Harvard Review remind us that Cambridge is the Drug Capital of the East Coast--at least for your better class of compounds. The better class, of course, is composed of the hallucinogens or psychedelics, those recently popularized substances which are less harmful than such narcotics of ill repute as opium and heroin, more fashionable than such gauche inebriants as airplane glue and laughing gas, and, in their effect, the closest things yet to fulfilling Aldous Huxley's prophecy of a drug having "all the advantages of Christianity and alcohol with none of the disadvantages...
...Opium for the Classes. In the Alps, springtime marks the departure of the big names, the starlets, the jet-setters, the titles and the arrival of prosperous executives and professional men weekending from Paris. They make for glaciers accessible only by helicopters or small planes piloted by men specially trained to land and take off on the uncertain slopes high on the mountains' shoulders...
Here the vast white silence and un marked snow usually stun first-timers. "Once you've tried this form of opium," said a young lawyer at Courchevel last week, "you must come back for more. You're rather spoiled for the beaten slope. You know then that skiing the trails is just a form of training...