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IONCE had a theory that country music was invented by AM-rock songwriters to make their product sound intelligent by comparison. After all, not even "Jeremiah was a bullfrog..." would find Tammy Wynette a hard act to follow. And if lyrics like "I beg your pardon,/ I never promised you a rosegarden..." wouldn't send you begging for a copy of James Brown's "Hot Pants," it's doubtful that anything would. Good country music has largely been a triumph of performance over material, and there is no question that any first-rate country guitarist, fiddler, or banjo player could...
...terrifying stare," but as for the temples, they "bore me profoundly." The living panorama of the voyage, however, made all his senses tingle with excitement. He responded to everything strange and savage and grotesque. Naked Coptic monks swam out to the young Frenchman's boat to beg for baksheesh and swam back with coins between their teeth. Stray cows poked their noses into ruins that Du Camp was conscientiously measuring. It was fun to discuss theology with prelates of obscure religions, or the technique of the bastinado with corrupt judges (it takes three months for the flesh...
What right has the law to make pathetic prisoners of human beings who feel their proper time has come and beg release...
...work once every 15 days." Thanage gave his four bullocks, two buffaloes, two cows and a few goats to the Belapur sugar factory, which feeds them crushed sugar cane as fodder, and came to Bombay. "Everybody here is hungry," he adds. "Any man with self-respect would not I beg, but if it's a question of filling your stomach and there is no work, what...
...refugees cluster around small fires. At nightfall, children and adults alike spread blankets out on the platform to sleep. Change Sampat Lokhande, a farm laborer, tells a familiar story: "The fields in my village had no water. I had to leave. How do I get food? Some of us beg. Some stay in front of grain shops and wait for the grain to spill. Then they scoop it up and hurry back here...