Word: dins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hameed ud-Din, former professor of Indo-Muslim culture, died of cancer Thursday at the Sydney Farber Cancer Center in Boston. He was 64 years...
...when they begin to paw him. Suddenly, we hear the women's voices, repeating lines from earlier scenes--but the words don't come from the stage; the actresses are silent. These disembodied voices blare over the same loudspeakers that have simulated the storm for ten minutes. In the din--enough to drive anyone mad--poor Lear's voice drops out, his volcanic speeches unheard, his personal apocalypse mastered by a 50-watt amplifier...
...Oxford, he covered Gangster "Legs" Diamond and the underworld for the New York Herald Tribune. In 1933 he published Rackety Rax, an uproarious satire about football and the Mob, and followed it to Hollywood, where it became a film and he became a scriptwriter on such classics as Gunga Din and Annie Oakley...
...exaggerated sense of adventure. He conveys what he learns as something that a middle-aged man should already know: months of wandering in a hard place make one sick, lonely, itchy and tired. "I was weary," he writes, "of the whole African calliope - that nagging, pulsing musical din that has been reverberating strongly without letup for thousands of years before you arrive and will be continuing without any respite for sickness or fatigue long after you have left the earth...
...hears the din in Khartoum where the Blue and the White Niles meet and in a southern Sudan sapped to a "hopeless torpor" by epidemic. The specific character and hardship of a place are conveyed with arresting brevity. On the hard desert of the Muslim north: "It depressed me to see the starved, tethered donkeys outside suffering while the fat ones ate, and the thirsty chickens dashing for a chance to peck at our spit." In the river town of Gelhak he records the visual cacophony in Polaroid prose: "We saw a man with a monkey's nose...