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...evidence of the bloodbath is all over East Pakistan. Whole sections of cities lie in ruins from shelling and aerial attacks. In Khalishpur, the northern suburb of Khulna, naked children and haggard women scavenge the rubble where their homes and shops once stood. Stretches of Chittagong's Hizari Lane and Maulana Sowkat Ali Road have been wiped out. The central bazaar in Jessore is reduced to twisted masses of corrugated tin and shattered walls. Kushtia, a city of 40,000, now looks, as a World Bank team reported, "like the morning after a nuclear attack." In Dacca, where soldiers...
...beginning, at least, was decidedly unclassy. When the horse finally arrived in Louisville, he was haggard, bruised, feverish and 51 lbs. underweight -just five days before the Derby. Arias, who believed that the speed trials favored by American trainers rob a horse of his stamina, worked Cañonero at a leisurely trot. A 100-to-l shot on some tip sheets, Cañonero moved from deep in the pack to win by 3¾ lengths. "What do they have to say now!" cried the jubilant Arias...
...however, he seems happiest at home in Mexico. After one recent trip, during which he visited a dozen countries in almost as many days, he arrived back at his farm late at night and looked at the cloudless sky. "It's a wonderful moonlit night," he told his haggard companions. Then, after seeing them off to bed, he stayed up until dawn, inspecting his fields...
...Haggard's Mama's Hungry Eyes and Okie from Muskogee locate themselves in the center of this ethic, songs he sings without a breath of irony or wavering self-consciousness. His bearing, mannerisms, even Haggard's cocky smile reflect the poor southern white's defiant pride. Constantly faced with social and historical pressures that threaten his social position, the country music has been able to confer on its audience a heroic dimension missing in their lives and politics...
...distinction can be made between the blues metaphorical use of a social world and country music's more literal retelling. When Merle Haggard sings, "I turned twenty-one in prison, doing life without parole," we have to assume he is not happy. Delta bluesman Robert Johnson's delicate poetics leave little doubt...