Word: tars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last Saturday was a happy one in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Sure the hometown Tar Heels lost their football game to Clemson. But more important things were afoot. After the football game, those lucky enough to have tickets headed over to Carmichael Auditorium for the biggest game in town, the annual Blue-White contest that marks the beginning of basketball season...
...Almighty would let Ford and his Big Cats get away with doing a thing like that to a team called the Deacons do you? Clemson can count itself out of the running already, or at least after it travels to Chapel Hill to play North Carolina this weekend. The Tar Heels have lost only one game at home in over two years and that was two weeks ago when they had lost their top quarterback, their top two tailbacks, half the defense, the stadium announcer, and the coach's wife to injuries. This week some of them are back...
Americans feel a little sheepish about complaining, or they should. The cheap-jack bungalow on the wrong side of the beltway is still no Mongolian yurt, no tar-paper shack in one of Rio's mountainside favelas. It is not Soviet housing, with the five-year waiting list for a room of one's own, and couples sometimes stolidly enduring their marriages because there is no other apartment (no other bed, even) to escape to. It is not like the arrangements in dense Hong Kong, as busily transient as an ant colony, or Tokyo, where much middle-class...
...incident in particular encapsulizes the sadness Oney found in Leary. Oney stopped into a bar--"a little tar-paper walled shack"--one evening and struck up a conversation with a middle-aged Black man who worked in a peanut warehouse. The two men became hungry, and drove some 30 miles in Oney's car to a steak house. But as the men got in line to order, Oney suddenly realized from his companion's confused look that his new friend was illiterate. Oney's discomfort grew when the two reached the salad bar--and he realized his acquaintance "didn...
Terrible ironies haunt the history. Fourth of July celebrations were bravely held behind barbed wire, in the shadow of sentry towers. Parents wasting away in tar-paper camp shacks proudly displayed starred banners indicating that their sons were American soldiers. Nisei (second generation Japanese Americans) members of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which fought gloriously in Europe, were sometimes required to have Caucasian escorts when they visited their interned families. (About 33,000 Japanese Americans served in the U.S. military during the war, some of them drafted right out of the camps.) After the war, many of the detainees found...