Word: statics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memories of Harvard seem to be associated with specific places--since the places are still there, the memories are still there too, waiting. They're not memories of changing relationships with people but just static: of walking past the Newell boathouse with the sun coming up, say, and someone I didn't know looking surprised to see me and wishing me good morning. The memories being associated with specific places might seem to make them more concrete, but I think it's really just the opposite--the places aren't settings for real people as much as distillations...
...give another example of a memory that seems outside of time, the Cambridge public library carries, for me, two separate, equally static images: The main reading room is filled with older people and Cambridge kids and anyone who has nothing to do with Harvard--it reminds me of walking up toward Fresh Pond. Where the houses are small and have American flags, on the first day of summer. And the library music-listening room involves this demonstration I was covering for The Crimson, only the demonstrators never showed up. The demonstration was outside 545 Tech Square, where...
Apart from my static memories and my incompetence at softball. I felt depressed about my future and about me. I couldn't seem to figure out my future. Midway through April a graduate student. I knew developed a scheme to go to work for Saudi Arabia. "But there are some drawbacks," he would concede. "They don't treat Jews well-they might not even hire me. My social life there--well, let's not talk about it. But they pay well, and if I learned Arabic, when I came back I could find a job teaching that." My schemes weren...
...Static Positions. In numbers alone, the relative strength of the two sides has changed drastically since the signing of the Paris accords in January 1973. At that time the North Vietnamese had 148,000 combat troops in South Viet Nam; today they have an estimated 237,000. Two years ago ARVN had 250,000 combat troops; today, in the wake of the great retreat, it has only 104,000. Out of 150,000 troops formerly based in Military Regions I and II, no more than 60,000 are left; the rest were killed, wounded, or simply ran away...
What is more, much of the South Vietnamese force is committed to static defense positions-bridges, key highways, airfields-limiting its mobility and ruling out probing operations. "We are tied down everywhere," complained a South Vietnamese general last week. "The Communists' tactics are to draw us out everywhere they can and then hit us where we are weakest...