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Driving back with Lowrie from his crofts (small farms) after feeding the sheep and collecting the goose eggs, we stopped and looked in on Binnie, Lowrie's elderly distant cousin. I chatted with Binnie while Lowrie stood on a ladder and poked around in the attic, checking on the fish he was salting and drying. Shetlanders have a very cozy way of looking out for others: dropping in on a neighbor, tending someone's land and sharing resources. "At this time of year, when you have to take off sheep, you pass some of them to others who may need...
...clash between Easteran and Western cultural values. The relationships seem to have been constructed to demonstrate the ravages of globalization: Hemant, for example, has flown in from Houston and is clumsily out of touch with traditional Indian customs; Aditi’s cousin begins an affair with a distant Australian relative whose western norms of sexual permissiveness complicate the coupling; and the wedding planner, Mr. Dubey (Vijay Razz) threatens to become a mocking caricature of the upwardly mobile Indian, with his prized collection of digital gadgetry, dedication to “foreign fashion” and insistence on the pompous...
...Crimson placed a distant second behind undefeated Penn, but the players could sense they were on the verge of something special...
...tale of Genji is very old and very new, a novel about love and society that also, along with Proust's masterpiece, is one of the world's great representations of the passage of human time. It immerses us deeply in a strange and distant culture, whose graceful decadence initially seems light-years away from the haste and thirst for progress of modern Japan. But 21st century Japan shares the same sense of fecund decay as Genji's Heian period?in both eras, society has become complex, gaudy but, finally, ennui-inducing. Now, as then, it is more rewarding...
...sudden, Harvard’s regular season woes are a distant memory...