Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nameless rock he has no bun and no penny. As he slowly goes mad from hunger while a rainstorm unmercifully keeps him from death by thirst, he imagines that he is Atlas and Prometheus. By the time the gulls have become flying lizards to him, he imagines-in the fictional season's most unpleasant metaphor for the condition of man-the last huge master-maggot of a box previously full of smaller maggots which, he has heard, are cultivated by Chinese gourmets...
Sighs at 60 Paces. Tips for stories were handed the Meades for the crudest motives-cupidity, jealousy, publicity-hunger-by a shadowy legion of informants who ranged from call girls and press-agents to the free-lance writer who testified last week that he earned $150 from Harrison by reporting the amorous escapades of an actor neighbor. Story leads came from ex-husbands or wives, or embittered lovers like the small-time movie actor who in 1955 told Confidential a story of the sexual eccentricities of a fast-rising young actress who jilted...
...venture. Seizing on this episode and the surrounding legends, Author White sends Voss and his companions on a rambling journey into disaster. The novel's finely told climax adds up to a masterly impression: a surrealist landscape of dead trees, the hallucinations of men dying of thirst and hunger, and the trancelike thoughts of nomad aborigines merged into a crude but forceful design like the bark paintings of the aborigines themselves...
...backwardness, illiteracy and impractical preoccupation with poetry; civilization's missionaries depart, leaving behind two artificially inseminated ewes and predicting bigger and better herds, which the Falqani do not want. Throughout his country, Ghazan seems to see only a bizarre blend of ancient Eastern evils and too-hasty Westernization-hunger and corruption, opium smokers in grey flannel suits, profiteering officials who "displayed the refrigerator in their drawing room like a Chinese lacquer cabinet...
...Siles, the U.S. is backing a battler. To keep his program from being junked or sidetracked. Siles has gone on a hunger strike, threatened to resign, taken to the road to talk down an impending general strike. Much of his trouble has been spawned by left-wing elements in his own Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (M.N.R.). led by Labor Boss Juan Lechín, who has helped turn Bolivia's biggest dollar earner, tin mining, into a mismanaged, worn-out featherbed for his followers. But last month Siles pushed Lechín to the sidelines by dissolving the leftist-dominated...