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...village near Canton, was typical of China's immemorial calamity. Even war had not been so dread a scourge as the flood. "When the Japs were here," said Ah Teng, "the battle raged four times across our village. But through it all we lived in the same hut. Now the hut has been swept away. My only buffalo, the pigs and chickens-all we have is gone...
...person drives home from a modern office building in a 1949 Studebaker into a tairy-tale garage with artificially caved-in rafters-a hut of the witch in the woods where the babes got lost! Is there nothing wrong with it, this architectural schizophrenia...
...since Edward VIII gave up his throne for Wally Simpson had society anywhere suffered a comparable constitutional crisis. All week long, under giant camelthorn trees at Serowe, thatched-hut capital of the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland in South Africa, the tar-black chieftains of the Bamangwato tribe pondered and palavered...
...rice shipments from Rangoon.
The bankrupt government hoped anxiously for a ?25 million British loan
($100 million). In London, talk revived that Burma, after 15 months of
chaotic independence, would apply for readmission to the British
Commonwealth. In Rangoon, Premier Thakin Nu had moved into a thatched
hut behind his house, and taken a vow of chastity (he has eight
children). Thakin Nu's friends said that he was devoting himself to
becoming a Buddha 999 worlds from now. Recently, Thakin Nu and
thousands of other residents
...direction is much better than the usual variety, however, in spite of some sloppy moments. In the second scene of the first act, a storm theme appears whenever the door of the pub is opened. Unfortunately, the door and the orchestra seldom coincide. With the exception of Grimes' hut, the sets are realistic and firm--two uncommon advantages...