Word: ik
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Skuru Ik squad, composed of high school players from Stockholm, did not really belong on the same ice with the Crimson. Harvard outskated, outpassed and outchecked the younger team for the entire game...
...infinitely wise" and "without evil" who confirmed, the author said, "how the qualities of truth, goodness and beauty can be found wherever we care to look for them." Now, after living for two years in the highlands of north Uganda with a very different group of natives, called the Ik, Turnbull seems pursued by an equally simple but opposite conviction. The Ik, in Turnbull's description, are a paradigm of human nastiness. Their habits, he says, it "would be an insult to animals to call bestiality." By the end of this book the author's repulsion clots into...
...then grumble if someone else robs the body first. The old, weak or blind will be tripped, pushed off balance, and at the last ignored as though dead while still alive. "Misfortune of others was their greatest joy," says Turnbull. "There is no goodness left for the Ik, only a full stomach...