Word: inhabitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Algeria's grimmest problems can be seen in the remote mountains, in such places as Amoura, a small village in the foothills of the Ouled Nail. The village itself was destroyed years ago by French bombers, and Amoura's 2,500 people inhabit caves. They have no cattle and live mostly on vegetables, supplemented by grass. Amoura had never seen a doctor until last month when a U.S. physician arrived from Algiers' Beni-Messous hospital, 170 miles away. One villager, who claims to be 105 years old, grumbled that "since the day I was born there...
...Sade's rage at the world was irrepressible. In two other novels, Justine and Juliette, he created an aristocracy of sexual perverts who inhabit lonely castles where they have unlimited license to commit foul crimes; where the most heroic is the most corrupt; where the true heroine does not try to preserve her virtue but to lose it as quickly as possible. Eventually, De Sade could not put on paper crimes vicious enough to satisfy him. "To attack the sun," he wrote, "to deprive the universe of it or to use it to set the world ablaze -these would...
...Doren's other life, his life away from teaching and criticism, is that of a poet. "The art of poetry I conceived to be the art of telling stories or otherwise rendering account of the single world all men inhabit" he writes in The Autobiography of Mark Van Doren. Thus his verse becomes a record of his life, both physical and mental. He wrote often of the war, of his family, of children, of love. Perhaps his richest subject matter is the country. He was born on a farm in Hope, Illinois and has spent much of his later life...
...workmen, peering over a bank of earth, see their factory burned by the Germans, and as the camera moves in a moving frieze from face to firelit face, the faces slowly in the mind become one face: the image of Neapolis Agonistes, the image of all men who inhabit the dark night of tyranny...
...undesirables and the misfits do not inhabit the fringe of society, Hoffer argues; they are the mainspring of change. The fact that they are failures in everyday life makes them jump at the chance to do the heroic. The U.S. itself, writes Hoffer, is the "handiwork of Europe's undesirables dumped on a virgin continent." California's present-day "fruit tramps and Okies" are the counterparts of the noble pioneers who settled the West...