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Today the identities of the institution and its home have mingled. To blaspheme the place is common practice on the part of those who adore it. Some refer to it as the "out house." But let anyone suggest changing quarters and a department of disparate factions will respond as one. As Professor Bate puts it, "It would seem like sacrilege...
Grateful Vietnamese farmers refer to fatherly, pipe-smoking John Barwick as Ong Cu Da (roughly, "Team Chief"), have showered the Americans with honors. From mountain villagers, for whom they demonstrated well-digging techniques, the teachers received-and all proudly wear-copper bracelets...
...from colonial rule, have in the past been pre-eminently associated with the U.S., they argue. They are fond of drawing parallels between the eighteenth-century struggle of Americans to throw off British rule and their own efforts today. They strongly resent American use of the word "terrorists" to refer to EOKA, declaring that this group is the Cypriot equivalent of our own "Minute...
...your women keep silence in the churches" does not refer to women as preachers but to their tendency for gossiping...
When Cornell physicians believe that they have cured the physical side of a Navajo's ills, and that his remaining problems are emotional, they agree that he may find help among his own people. In effect, they are referring him to a medicine man. And as mutual understanding improves, they are delighted to find that a nidilniihi, like other native diagnosticians, is more likely to refer patients direct to the clinic, bypassing the chishiji and similar sings. The medicine men, more and more, are admitting themselves to PHS hospitals to get white man's magic for illnesses which...