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* Gershwin Biographer Interviewed on NPR - 1 messages, 1 author
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* University Students Take Over South Vietnam Province - 2 messages, 2 authors
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* Free (Naked) Lunch - 1 messages, 1 author
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* Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANT UPDATE) - 1
messages, 1 author
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TOPIC: Gershwin Biographer Interviewed on NPR
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/t/22bc6e08afcd8bad?hl=en
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Date: Fri, Oct 16 2009 11:00 pm
From: mobious@waterloo.com
On September 17, 2009 Walter Rimler was interviewed on NPR station WILL
about his new book "George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait." The interview
can be heard at:
http://will.uiuc.edu/media/aftmag090917.mp3
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TOPIC: University Students Take Over South Vietnam Province
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/t/faf54095b98b5830?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Sat, Oct 17 2009 1:13 am
From: Tim Bruening
PP 206-207 of Norman Vincent Peale's "Enthusiasm Makes The Difference":
Peale says that he was told that a dozen students came to South
Vietnamese Premier Ky (who was Premier in the mid 1960s) and said "Turn
over a province to us, let us administer it". He was started at their
audacity, but found that they had dreams and practical plans to go with
it, so gave them a province of 30,000 people. Said province was a
depraved section and a hotbed for Communist espionage. The students dug
into the mud, repaired bulldozers, helped farmers with their livestock,
drained swamps, cleaned up sewer systems, and built 600 homes, a
hospital, and 17 health centers. Inside of a year, they had closed up
the Communist leak, cleaned up the entire surroundings, and made it a
place of health. Ky wished that he could do with the entire country
what the students did with one province. Does anyone know more about
the above story than what Peale said? (Peale neglected to identify the
province, nor did he say why the students weren't directed to administer
the entire nation!).
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Sat, Oct 17 2009 8:50 am
From: "Don Phillipson"
"Tim Bruening" <tsbrueni@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote in message
news:4AD97CA0.C7E54889@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us...
> PP 206-207 of Norman Vincent Peale's "Enthusiasm Makes The Difference":
> Peale says that he was told that a dozen students came to South
> Vietnamese Premier Ky (who was Premier in the mid 1960s) and said "Turn
> over a province to us, let us administer it". He was started at their
> audacity, but found that they had dreams and practical plans to go with
> it, so gave them a province of 30,000 people. Said province was a
> depraved section and a hotbed for Communist espionage. The students dug
> into the mud, repaired bulldozers, helped farmers with their livestock,
> drained swamps, cleaned up sewer systems, and built 600 homes, a
> hospital, and 17 health centers. Inside of a year, they had closed up
> the Communist leak, cleaned up the entire surroundings, and made it a
> place of health. Ky wished that he could do with the entire country
> what the students did with one province. Does anyone know more about
> the above story than what Peale said? (Peale neglected to identify the
> province, nor did he say why the students weren't directed to administer
> the entire nation!).
We have reasons to doubt the veracity of this.
1. A province of only 30,000 people would be very unusual in
Vietnam, which had in the 1980s 53 million people in 37
provinces (most over 1M population, the smallest 322,000
according to my Statesman's Year Book.)
2. We are invited to believe a dozen newcomers, few or none
of them experienced in building trades, completed within a
year construction of 600 houses and 18 health centres. (In the
French or US building industries, no group of 12 people could
be expected to do this let alone while simultaneously draining
swamps and cleaning up sewage systems.)
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
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TOPIC: Free (Naked) Lunch
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/t/f5d1ec06a860d43b?hl=en
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Date: Sat, Oct 17 2009 1:43 am
From: Just Me
Amazing what you can dig up at Google Video. Not that I've ever been
that much of a fan of Wm. Burroughs, nor for David Cronenberg either,
but lookee here . . .
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Naked+Lunch&hl=en&emb=1&aq=f#
You can get the whole feature length film right on your computer.
They aired Videodrome on TCM tonight, which always did have all the
charm of watching a traffic accident, so it piqued my prurient
interest to check Cronenberg out at IMDb, and there of course was
Naked Lunch in the list. So then I think, maybe YouTube's got some
footage from it. I go there, but it's down for maintenance. That's how
I wound up searching Google Video--and what do you suppose? I hit the
jackpot in creepy, gleepy, grimy, slimy goo. I wonder where I can
find the cashier window to cash a handful of that in for something
profitable?
--
JM http://doo-dads.blogspot.com
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TOPIC: Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANT UPDATE)
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/t/92153a6882249799?hl=en
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Date: Sat, Oct 17 2009 9:19 am
From: Walter Bushell
In article <Zp-dnaQ9sMzhL0rXnZ2dnUVZ_u6dnZ2d@giganews.com>,
"Stanley Moore" <smoore20@comcast.net> wrote:
> Well I say, "the sooner the better." <G> I wondered at the time of DOMA that
> no one considered the issue. You'd think staffers who draft these things
> would tell the elected members, "Hey this probably isn't constitutional,"
> and they wouldn't even try to pass it. I am sure it happens all the time
> when some Senator or Representative comes up with a cockamamie bill and the
> staffers have a quiet word with them. Take care
But, many times, it's fine. They pass the law anyway to please the
constituents. Then when the courts overturn the law, they can rail at
the courts.
--
A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard.
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