Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such as its old buildings, you destroy its personality. A city like Rome is beautiful not for its efficiency or cleanliness but for its diversity. Spacious streets, blank walls and giant blocks of steel and concrete may make a pleasing design on paper, but in reality they create a desert of human expression. Marcello Pense Delray Beach...
...Beyond the Veil, Gray almost novelistically traces his adjustment to the challenges and idiosyncracies he found in Saudi Arabia. Built with proceeds from the sale of Saudi Arabian oil, the hospital is "one of the newest and best-equipped in the world." Most of its patients, however, especially the desert nomads, have never seen a doctor before and believe no medical care can help them if Allah wants them to die. Better-educated Saudis, including numerous princes and princesses, rarely get medical care at home, preferring the better-known hospitals abroad. Gray's vivid anecdotes tell of other incongruities...
...author's occasional attempts to find symbolic meaning in his experiences generally fall flat; he has not written a novel. The experiences themselves, though, are vivid enough to provide a convincing picture of a life behind a different veil--the one that shrouds a desert country from Western eyes. Perhaps the reader is not ready to pack his bags and move to the Empty Quarter, but he will surely be glad that Gray...
...news that Samoan society is not as peaceful and permissive as once thought is probably inevitable. Anthropologists once thought the! Kung San Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert were a people for whom war and violence were unknown, but recent studies have revealed that they have a crime and suicide rate as high as that of many western countries. Moreover, several previous studies including at least one by an amateur anthropologist had concluded that Mead's picture was a little too rosy...
...said she will spend the next year here writing her second book, tentatively titled. "The Burdens of Western American History." Her first book, "Desert Passages," has been completed but not yet released...