Word: cannibalisme
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Authorities decided to bury the dead on the mountain where they had died. The survivors went home to Montevideo and picked up life as best they could. At first relatives of the dead were morally outraged that the bodies had been desecrated by cannibalism. From the viewpoint of Christian ethics...
* The incident was reminiscent of the history of the Donner Party, a group of 87 pioneers who were trapped by early snow in the California mountains in 1846. When their food gave out,they resorted to cannibalism to survive. As George Keithley wrote in his narrative poem The Donner Party...
The publicity and the director himself have made much of Macunaima as a political parable of contemporary life in Brazil: the hero's family, with members of all colors, represents the interrelation of Brazil's races; the people he encounters--police, gangsters, politicians, poor, rich--represent various sectors of society...
Although Train's speech implied a need for severe environmental regulatory measures, he said it was not necessary to accept "the dire hypotheses and methods underlying some of the more extreme predictions." A decidedly dire method of population control was advanced last week by the California social welfare board...
This image of woman was distilled in a title when Arthur Kopit wrote O Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad. Despite ample surrealistic high jinks, such as having poor dead Dad fall out of the closet as...