Word: roth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Delderfield (8) 8-The Breast, Roth 9-Captains and the Kings...
Hanoi recently invited a quartet of American physicians-Drs. Morris Simon, Peter Wolff and Pierce Gardner of Harvard Medical School and George Roth of San Francisco-to inspect North Viet Nam's health-care system. The four spent a week touring rural and urban facilities. They said that they were able to see nearly everything they wished, though their hosts were obviously interested in showing off their best facilities. Interviewed by TIME last week, the doctors offered this appraisal...
Outhouse Poetry. Like their Chinese counterparts, North Vietnamese authorities stress prevention of disease through sanitation. Several local physicians told Roth, "I have failed unless I keep my patients from getting ill." Most North Vietnamese make a fetish of cleanliness. Public-health teams even inspect every family's outhouse, awarding pink slips to those that pass inspection, green to those that fail. According to Gardner, families get special red slips if their outhouses are "clean enough to write poetry...
...over Vietnam every week for four years is not the sort of figure to provoke unmitigated hilarity. Rather, one must ask if these works are persuasive, whether they are aware of their own aims and capable of achieving them. In this sense, all three works succeed overwhelmingly, though only Roth's has the universality to endure as more than a dated artifact of political culture...
...last decade; it transcends the congenial buffoonery which has left Meader already forgotten. The success of these works inevitably leaves us to ponder the price in blood we have paid to achieve them. Mort Sahl, in 1968, summed up a feeling with which de Antonio, Vidal and Roth would assuredly agree. It would be easy for the satirists to make fun of a President Nixon, he said, "but please don't cast your votes for our sake...