Word: huts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Magpie's Hut. Crick and Watson did their work in a shabby shack sandwiched between the imposing academic buildings on the flower-bordered lawns of Cambridge. In one corner of this laboratory (known locally as The Hut), they had a magpie's nest of old books and model molecules strung like mobiles from the ceiling. Debonair and carefully dressed, Crick always managed to look incongruous there; Watson, tieless, rumpled and far more casual in his dress, fitted the picture perfectly. New Zealand-born Wilkins, tall, blond and courtly in the British manner, worked with Dr. Rosalind Franklin...
Without a word the man and woman labor from dark to dark, from month to month in the long hot season to keep their fields alive. From sun to sun they sleep on a bed of rushes in a hut of reeds. In the autumn they harvest a few sacks of sweet potatoes. In the winter they rout stumps out of the hard land to increase their pitiful sum of soil. In the spring they reap the winter wheat and thresh it with a flail as old as agriculture. In the summer they climb down to the boat, row across...
...vengeance for our sins." But the real evil, experts decided, lies in the peasants' age-old technique of building thick-walled, mud-brick houses that instantly collapse on their occupants in an earthquake. After his inspection, the Shah announced plans to rebuild the nation's 50.000 mud-hut villages.* It will take at least 15 years-if new earthquakes do not hasten the task...
...schools the totok irascibly and well. Ives shows him selfless compassion in a colony of lepers, superstitious fear and grief in a plague-ridden village that must be dynamited hut by hut, aristocratic pride and dignity in a top-hatted native chief who tries to save his rat-ridden palace from Ives's sanitizing torches by playing billiards for it. These scenes, and the hot tropic scenery, are stubbornly convincing. Ives cannot school Hudson to believe in God, perhaps because his own version harbors more fear than love: "Out here in the jungle when a man doesn...
...tribe practices the cult of the severed head. Young boys entering warrior-hood spend an initiation night in the men's communal hut cradling a freshly cut enemy head between their knees-a ceremony that requires a new crop of heads each time. The headhunters, photographed in the same general territory where 23-year-old Michael Rockefeller was lost last year, wear skulls dangling from their necks as magic charms against evil, and they tuck skulls under their heads as pillows at night. Despite the archly ominous narration of the sound track, the headhunters prove curiously unsavage. Poling their...