Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seewagon, a former All-American at Rice and the national amateur champion in 1969, is in his third year of coaching at Columbia, and he is determined to make his team one of the best in the country...
...Mekong Delta, where 80% of South Viet Nam's rice is grown, seven out of ten families were tenants, paying 30% or more of their income to the landlords for their land, seed and the use of a buffalo. Typical of the tenants was Tran Van Cau, 42, a farmer in the Delta village of Tan Loc. For ten years, Cau had tilled a small 4½-acre tract; he paid rent first to a local landlord, then for six years to the Viet Cong, then to the original landlord, who moved back after government troops "pacified" the village...
What story there is chronicles the 23rd year in the life of Danny Deck, a sometime graduate student at Rice University in Houston and a writer. Danny is just discovering "the abruptness with which major changes can occur in life." Within a few months, he has seen his first novel bought by Random House and Hollywood, fallen in love with two women and completed a wary tour of self-exile in California...
...book is really a series of leave-takings - from Rice, student friends and Texas, later from his wife, and his mistress and California. Its best sequence concerns Danny's compulsive trip back to the remotest personal past...
...receive only about $3 to $4 a month in spending money. The division, in accordance with the words of Chairman Mao, produces its own food. We watch P.L.A. men working to process soy beans into soy sauce, bean paste, vinegar and bean curd. The division also grows its own rice and raises 900-odd pigs. Everything fits into its objective of achieving self-reliance and, as Vice Commander Keng puts it, "lightening the burden of the locality." There is a very basic quality about the whole operation. The necessities of life with no refinements-rice, meat and soy sauce...