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...their bapak (father). Some felt that they should pay homage to him as the founding father who proclaimed Indonesia's independence in 1945 and spawned a sense of national identity. Others were prepared to damn him as the profligate who led his country to the brink of economic ruin and tried to hand it to the Communists...
...seems to me that Masters and Johnson create more problems then they solve. As a laywoman (no pun intended), I studiously avoid all that Masterly advice on sex. So much analysis and technical information could ruin a perfectly enjoyable relationship...
...formerly Sihanoukville) in the south and Chup, site of Indochina's largest rubber plantation, in the north. Attacking the Chup plantation, whose 64,000 acres had become a haven for elements of the Viet Cong 9th Division, South Vietnamese Skyraiders reduced the latex plant to a smoking ruin. Trouble is, they also killed 15 civilians...
...very precious thing: "Among us, you are a free man. Become yourself." At the same time, "Do your own thing" can be twisted by the immature and undisciplined in accord with their own whims. Then it becomes a license, a kind of big or little game hunt. Activists ruin others because "their thing" demands intellectual or sexual coercion. In the name of doing a big public thing, they do shameful, personal things and leave the wreckage of other lives to mark their trail...
...studio on the Rue Boissonnade to loaf among the plebs until inspiration returns. But no sooner is he in "the circle of the frivolous damned" than the world's petty annoyances close in. Brother Georges, a witless executive living far beyond his means and on the verge of ruin, asks for and gets the balance in Pluche's bank account. Brother-in-Law Mesnard, an immensely successful painter who sold his talent out to fashionable tastes, has taken up with a young bird and threatens the happiness of Pluche's sister Marie...