Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fitzhugh Turner, chief of U.S. psychological warfare in the Delta, "but, in general, we're pinned down." The other half of the Delta's transport system, its waterways, are running at nearly 75% of normal traffic loads, however. There is little shortage of food in the rice-rich Delta, and thus little inflation. The attacks closed the Delta's schools, pulled most of the 10,000 pacification workers into the towns. There is no doubt that the Viet Cong have added to their extensive Delta holdings, and will...
Alexander Scourby, 54, is a television anomaly - a performer who is often heard, but seldom seen. The rich, resonant bass that frets, in the name of Johnson & Johnson Band-Aids, "It's a dirty world," is Scourby's. The voice that expresses Eastern Air Lines' sentiment, "We want everyone to fly," is his. He is also the fellow on the tele phone commercial who explains warmly that "We may be the only phone company in town, but we try not to act like...
...Fiedler does have a knack of presenting provocative material in such a rich context that it rarely fails to stimulate the reader's imagination. He is the antithesis of the cautious academic reading from yellowed lecture notes. In fact, a good case could be made that The Return of the Vanishing American is really a sly anti-Ph.D. thesis...
...people Tarsis does concentrate on are the locals, who, like Lipyan, are mostly interested in money, sex, their genuinely desperate love affairs and their unfulfilled lives. The townspeople practice adultery on the grand scale, get rich on tips and graft and, when party functionaries are not around, openly voice their contempt for the bureaucrats who try to order their lives. The few idealists among the party members are stubborn but become steadily disillusioned. For them, life is a double-cross. Not only do they love as hopelessly as others; their personal lives are wrenched out of shape by loyalty...
...premise is that the special pleadings of minority groups-Jews, Negroes, artists, homosexuals-are funny. So Richler finds humor in the way Jacob Shalinsky, messianic editor of an obscure journal called Jewish Thought, hounds Mortimer with the wily accusation that he is really a secret Jew. And he finds rich irony in the fact that a svelte Negro beauty, who craves Mortimer's body, insists on a pay-as-you-go arrangement in order to cater to what she presumes is his sense of racial superiority...