Word: riches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FAMILY MOSKAT, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The story of a rich Warsaw family, told with richness and scope reminiscent of the great 19th century Russian novels. Singer, too often tagged as "the master of Yiddish prose," ranks among the best contemporary novelists in any language...
...their own minorities, including Burma's harried Indians, Japan's Koreans and -throughout Southeast Asia-the overseas Chinese. Sixteen million Chinese live outside China, and everywhere their prosperity, diligence and clannishness arouse jealousy. Often they are accused of disloyalty to their host countries. Indonesians have stripped rich "slit-eyes" of their holdings, and Chinese in Laos are scornfully called "Mao Tse-tung." International airlines make sure that no Chinese stewardesses work on their flights to India...
There are places in Brazil, that troubled but rich giant, where just scuffing a shovel in the dirt might produce treasures to dream about. To prove it, communities like Diamantina, Turmalina, Esmeralda, Ametista dot the country. Last week the scene was Cristalina (pop. 3,800), an interior town some 60 miles south of Brasilia, once the center of a fabulous quartz-crystal boom and now devoted largely to agriculture and cattle raising...
...Bahia, 400 miles away, found a fine stone that he sold for $190, later discovered that the buyer quickly resold it for more than $2,500. Luckier was the young lady who spent four days digging in the pits, made $2,700, then quit and went home a rich woman...
...ORDWAYS, by William Humphrey. With rich, wry Southern recall, Novelist Humphrey (Home from the Hill) retraces a family's oddball odyssey from post-Civil War Tennessee to East Texas and down to the Mexican border, marking every mile with fond and funny bouquets...