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More than a third of the earth's land mass is desert or desert-like, and one put of seven people-some 630 million-dwell in these parched regions. In the past, they have been able to scratch out a livelihood-barely. Now, largely through man's own folly, their fragile existence is threatened by a deadly disease of the land called, awkwardly but accurately, "desertification...
...Declares Rosalynn: "This is home." She adds: "What made it easy was that we were all together again." "All" is the eight of them-the senior Carters, Amy, Jeff and Wife Annette, Chip and Wife Caron and five-month-old James Earl Carter IV-the most extended family to dwell in the Executive mansion since the expansive days of the Franklin Roosevelts. On a recent Saturday night, the President and First Lady volunteered to baby-sit. "Jimmy pushed the baby around the South Lawn," Rosalynn says, "and while we played tennis the baby was in his carriage beside the court...
Hello from the sewers... hello from the cracks in the sidewalks of N.Y.C., and from the ants that dwell in these cracks and feed on the dried blood that has settled into the cracks...
...CANNOT BE easy to conjure up the image of a Trinidad slum within Harvard's walls. It is much easier, in this frame of reference, to dwell on the rhythm of Carribean music or the island's luxurious beaches than to consider the realities of a life without money or opportunity, a life in which dreams are consistently stifled by a miserable reality. Yet it is precisely because it does not take this easy way out that the Leverett Arts Society's production of Errol John's Moon on a Rainbow Shawl is so impressive. Without falling into bathos...
...elevation of simple virtues, the author may dwell longer than necessary on the nobility of dumb animals. She even allows selected dogs and cats to speak intelligently to the mystical child Giuseppe. Such sentimentality intrudes on the book's naturalistic tenor but seems, in the end. integral to Morante's purpose: to look at horror with innocent eyes and ask "Why?" In articulating that question, this demanding, powerful novel meets the stipulation laid down by Albert Camus: "The writer's role is not free of difficult duties. By definition he cannot put himself today in the service...