Word: hinterlands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Loincloth & Bracelet. The Special Forces came to Viet Nam in 1961. Mov ing out into the jungled hinterland where Saigon exerted little or no control, they recruited irregular forces from minority groups-mostly Montagnard tribesmen-and established fortified base camps. From the beginning, the Americans, unlike the Vietnamese, got along well with the "Yards." It is not unusual to see a Special Forces man, decked out in loincloth and wearing the plain brass Montagnard bracelets that indicate blood brotherhood, attending a village party or a wedding as an honored guest. Though the Americans are a familiar sight in many villages...
Without a hinterland from which to draw new inhabitants, and because many young West Berliners are moving to West Germany for better jobs, the city's population is growing disturbingly old. More than 20% of West Berlin's residents are now 65 or older (v. 12½% in West Germany). According to one macabre local joke, undertaking is the city's only booming business; yet even that is not free from problems. Because of a shortage of cemetery space and gravediggers, almost half the city's dead are now cremated-with the result that the city...
...notion that animates the patrons of culture centers across the length of the U.S. is that regional theaters will revitalize American drama. It seems to be almost an article of faith that the hinterland is teeming with mute dramatic Miltons who will be brought to full and glorious voice with a foundation grant. What is the hard news and dispiriting fact? Not a single new playwright of any magnitude has, to the present moment, been unearthed by the regional theater. Indeed, the number of new plays produced by the overwhelming majority of the regional theaters in any given season compares...
Hanoi undoubtedly sees the dispersal and hardship of war as a lesson for its urban elite as well. The DLD echoed Mao's concern with getting intellectuals to develop a feel for the peasantry when it packed students off to the hinterland for several months of manual labor of 1958. Now students scattered in jungle and mountain retreats are hacking out their own classrooms, sleeping in straw huts, and walking dirt paths to classes...
Westerners three years ago, 3,000,000 tourists have swept through-most of them to bask in the sun on once-deserted Black Sea beaches, others to visit Sofia's antiquity-rich hinterland dotted with Thracian, Macedonian and Roman ruins. Recently, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Turkey joined in a tourist venture publicizing "historic" Highway E-5-the Roman route to the Near East that later carried Crusaders and pilgrims in their long journey to the Holy Land. The publicity blurbs pointedly failed to mention that the road also served the Turkish janizaries in their harsh 500-year occupation of Bulgaria...