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Among others sent to the camps: Khong Khetsakhorn, a machinery operator whose crime was to have worked on USAID construction projects, and Ut Philaphan-deth, a scion of an important Laotian business family, who was accused of harboring "a nest of spies...
...possess symbols of individual affluence: a private home or a modern apartment, a family car, a stuga (summer cottage) and often a sailboat. No slums disfigure their cities, their air and water are largely pollution-free, and they have ever more leisure to indulge a collective passion for being ut i naturen (out in nature) in their half-forested country. Neither ill-health, unemployment nor old age pose the terror of financial hardship. In short, Sweden's 8.2 million citizens have ample reasons for being satisfied. In fact, most...
...terms that describe the ji-hada or patterns left on the steel by repeated folding and hammering-pine tree bark, catfish skin, straight grain and sugu-ut-suri, "a straight misty line of cloud"-are all derived from nature...
...UT HOWEVER "pure" criticism can become, it still has political consequences. And the same holds true for literature in general. If critics won't invoke certain works as representing their society--as say, British critics might have done with Kipling and Tennyson to support British imperialism at the turn of the century--Somebody surely will. That's when it becomes important for Marxists to be aware of the abuses of romance, which in its latest form--science fiction--still hasn't been completely absorbed by bourgeois values (some of H.G. Wells's novels and Stat Trek are examples of forms...
...camps were settling into the ordinary routines of existence. There were a few deaths and also some marriages. On Guam, an ex-G.I. named Thomas Hejl finally found and married Nguyen Thi Ut, the fiancee he had met during his tour of duty in Viet Nam several years before. Their daughter, born three years ago, was killed by a Communist gunshot as her mother carried her on a fishing boat fleeing Saigon...