After Bob left South Vietnam and returned to Atlanta, Tuyết joined him there in 1973, leaving her son in the care of relatives in Vietnam. Air Force who met his mother Tuyết, an ostensible widow with a young son, John, in Saigon during the Vietnam War. Sketchy but "official" family narrative indicates that Bob, Adams' father, was a medic with the U.S. Just as the inhospitable South African milieu somehow gave Lessing a respite from her parents' "monstrous legacy," the oppressive Southern atmosphere endowed Adams with a fearlessness that set him toward his chosen destiny. In some way, the British-colonized landscape of 1920s Rhodesia where Doris Lessing grew up was analogous to the conservative, homophobic Atlanta suburbs where Adams' family lived in the 1980s. His 2008 interview of Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing for Time magazine eerily echoes the post-Vietnam War trauma experienced by his parents.
By ingeniously weaving improbable and conflicting forces that make up his personal history, Adams affirms a resilient idea of home that yearns to transcend space and time.Ī London-based journalist with degrees in experimental psychology and Southeast Asian history and politics, Adams has always gravitated toward subject matters close to his heart. Adams' runs the popular wiwibloggs site and YouTube channel that closely tracks Eurovision. The title alludes both to Adams' irrepressible outlook and the winning song performed by Ukrainian singer Ruslana in the 2004 Eurovision contest. People who know more about a subject have a kind of X-ray vision they can zero in on a problem’s underlying fundamentals, rather than using up their brain’s processing power on getting to grips with the information in which the problem comes wrapped.Wild Dances, William Lee Adams' page-turning, tragicomic memoir, deftly combines two seemingly divergent themes: a harrowing coming-of-age story of a biracial Vietnamese-American and his "queer and curious journey" to become the bespoke authority on Eurovision. As Leslie says: “Knowledge makes you smarter. Chess seems like a game of pure abstract reasoning, but being good at it depends on knowledge. They can “see” most of the board without having to memorise each piece and its place. Grandmasters and experienced players did much better than novices – because they have thousands of positions and kinds of positions stored in their memories already. Show people a chess board, with the pieces arranged as if a game is under way, and then ask them to replace the pieces from memory. He takes on the absurd idea that schools should teach “thinking skills” instead of “knowledge”, and illustrates it with a great experiment carried out in 1946. Sometimes in the book, Leslie talks such good sense that he makes you realise what an idiot you have been all these years.
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