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Part 1, called Father Panchali (The Lament of the Path), describes the hero's childhood in the innocence and violence of a village in Bengal. Part 2, Aparajito (The Unvanquished), tells how he lost his father and left his mother in order to make himself a modern man. Part 3, called Apur Sansar (The World of Apu), begins with a slyly humorous description of how the young man (Soumitra Chatterjee) spends his can't-afford-salad days of bohemian genius in Calcutta's slums. Suddenly one day a college friend carts him off to a country wedding...
...Lament for a City, by Henry Beetle Hough. Novelist Hough is a New England editor who skillfully explores the power and glory of small-town journalism...
...Republic of Cyprus, held a farewell dress reception for diplomats and a garden leave-taking for 200 personal friends. Then, still resplendent in plumed hat and gold braid. ex-Governor Foot boarded Her Majesty's frigate Chichester and sailed over the horizon to a specially composed bagpipe lament entitled Sir Hugh's Farewell to Cyprus...
...Lament for a City, by Henry Beetle Hough. An unsentimental novel by an aging New England editor, demonstrating that the soul of a town is its newspaper, and that both can be sold down the Styx...
...Lament for a City, by Henry Beetle Hough. An unsentimental novel by an aging New England editor, illustrating that the soul of a town is its newspaper and that both can be sold down the Styx...