Word: holidaying
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...guardians of the law handed selected areas for an average of two days to the lawless of their preference, while some group of Indians paid an indescribable price in blood. For these mass lynchings have an almost celebratory air. Mobs roam the street as if on some gruesome holiday during which they have been released from all the codes of humanity, chatting as they roam, roaring as they kill. Fire and sword is not a metaphor in my India...
...takes a special kind of character to stay in a village when the rest of the world is rushing off to the city. Besides the occasional grandchild on holiday, no young people populate the lovely countryside. Bachelors predominate: there is the entrepreneur known as The Shah, who resolutely refuses marriage; Patrick Ryan, a gruff builder; Bill Evans, a survivor of Ireland’s horrific orphanages, who made it into old age quiet and strangely asexual. Gentle, blithe Jamesie and his wife Mary have grandchildren faraway in Dublin, while their friends Ruttledge and Kate, transplants from London, are childless. Because...
...Muslim holiday of Eid dawns in Kabul, but Karzai won't be spending time with his family. His 28-year-old wife, an Afghan doctor, is still living in the Pakistan town of Quetta. Karzai jokes that she is staying put until he finds a decent place to live. Colleagues say he is concerned about her security and that of friends. "Imagine that once you had to live in a jungle full of wild beasts," he says. "Afterward, it takes a while to stop thinking that those beasts are still out there." Many Afghans are convinced that fearsome creatures...
...mark the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Purim, Harvard Hillel staged a mock trial of Haman, the sixth century royal advisor who would have committed genocide against the Jews had not the beautiful Esther convinced the king to spare her people, according to Jewish tradition...
...Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris had popular opinion on his side, as mere mention of the defendant’s name caused the audience to jeer. Harris defined Haman’s crime as “aiding and abetting” the fun that is associated with the holiday...