Word: ladened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then Mao stopped the clock in Canton. According to Radio Moscow, the People's Liberation Army moved as many as 180,000 soldiers into Canton, took over the civil and police administration. Army trucks laden with red banners and colored posters of Mao, their roofs hung with red bulbs, cruised through the streets announcing the takeover, touching off a massive demonstration. It was the sort of mobilization of the masses that Mao's name can still conjure, as thousands milled about waving flags, beating drums, clanging cymbals and singing Maoist anthems...
...understands infinitely more than someone who spends six weeks in Bombay with Experiment in International Living, but he achieves something less than--or better, very different from--the visiting anthropologist or political scientist. Indeed, Volunteers often find it fashionable to describe their environment in the kind of sweeping, value-laden generalizations which they learned to beware of in college history of sociology class. "Peruvian Indians are simple and friendly people," they will joke, or "The Ghanaians are so much smarter than the Liberians." Like all cultural descriptions the statements will be half true, but in voicing them the American abroad...
...only a minimal interest in food and drink. Once, for a lunch in his honor at Le Berkeley restaurant in Paris, the maître d'hôtel outdid himself with a magnificent souffle. Harry was first to dig into the souffle, then stopped his laden fork in mid-air to expound some point that lasted for 20 minutes, while the souffle sagged and expired, and the agonized maître d'hôtel at last, without a word, snatched up the flattened remains and fled to the kitchen...
...same time, there is a trend away from James Bond--in its original conception, anyway. Casino Royale, the multi-Bond self-parody, should help put an end to this whole clumsy, device-laden, technically incompetent school of films. And it should be an end that pleases just about everyone (except possibly Bosley Crowther in whom some second-rate streak of romanticism was apparently aroused by the Bond movies...
Nothing is better calculated to keep dollar-laden American tourists away from a foreign land than the prospect of uncertain comforts. Even business men tend to shun outposts where the hot water runs cold, the cold water may be undrinkable, or the food too bacterial for tender Western stomachs. Nearly a score of underdeveloped countries have overcome the problem of sleazy accommodations - and so bolstered their economies - by turning to Inter-Continental Hotels Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pan American World Airways...