Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vietnam veterans don't sound like my teacher. They tell cynical stories of an arbitrary war. They tell of buddies killed in the jungle by an anonymous trap or an accidental bombing. They learned to kill to save a corrupt government, and they learned to accept death as a pointless inevitability...
...work day is spent knocking on the doors of the aging. As I wait for an elderly woman to move the boxes and chair which block the door before she can remove the chain and turn the two locks on her too thin door, I pray that the fire trap in which she and many others live will not burst into flames...
...East Germany since 1965. (One typical lyric ridiculing Communist bureaucrats, "Fat oxen belong in the pot/ Not in official positions.") Thus it came as a surprise when the East German authorities gave Biermann permission to go on a two-week concert tour of West Germany. Once Biermann left, the trap was sprung: his citizenship was canceled. Biermann was disconsolate, and has since pleaded to return...
...curious exchange, The Smugglers becomes almost a theological dialogue while October Light is steeped in melodrama. A trap set for Sally by James nearly kills her peacemaking niece. James almost kills himself in his pickup truck while returning from Merton's Hideaway, full of rage and beer. Retrospective suicides begin falling out of the family tree: James' mad Uncle Ira, James' tormented son Richard...
...kept careful records of the more than $500,000, usually in the form of $100 bills stuffed into a white envelope, that the Park regime slipped to Americans it hoped to influence. He recruited attractive Korean women, sometimes with the threat of deportation if they did not cooperate, to trap Representatives and Senators by sleeping with them. He also acted as his government's watchdog over more public South Korean lobbyists...