Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guilty roles in the several Watergate conspiracies. Others unconvincingly denied any participation by themselves or anyone at the White House. But only the relatively powerless John Dean, tainted but nevertheless courageous in his turncoat testimony, made grave accusations of the President's participation in the coverup. His chilling tale, conveyed in a lifeless baritone, was sharply denied by such far more influential and shrewd Nixon intimates as H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell...
...TALE OF KIEU by NGUYEN...
...entirely appropriate, both for Viet Nam and the U.S., that The Tale of Kieu, a long epic poem that has captivated the Vietnamese for more than 150 years, should now be published in English. Ho Chi Minh incorporated many lines from Kieu into his own poetry. Students in South Vietnamese high schools study it today just as English-speaking students study Shakespeare. In remote villages, mothers recite it to their children as moral instruction and entertainment. If Americans are to understand the Vietnamese and their war -even at this late date-The Tale of Kieu is a good place...
More important for Americans are the clues Kieu provides to Vietnamese attitudes. Like the heroine of the poem, a great many Vietnamese today believe that they are being punished for some collective sin committed in the dim past. The Tale of Kieu holds out hope that virtue will be rewarded, that free will can alter a person's karma. But it is a slim hope for a people who have known centuries of war and endured a series of foreign occupations. As Translator Thong writes in the introduction: "By an accident of history, the autobiography of a divided soul...
Their only hope lies in alcoholic pipe-dreams. Their fondest desire is a visit from Hickey, a gladhanding traveling salesman who conjures inexplicable laughter out of the barflies' brimming cups with the tale of how his lonely wife is finding sexual solace with an iceman...