Word: lice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...total picture presented is one of human beings reduced to a status lower than that of animals; filthy, full of lice, festered wounds full of maggots; their sickness regulated to a point just short of death; unshaven, without haircuts or baths for as much as a year; men in rags, exposed to the elements; fed with carefully measured minimum quantities and lowest quality of food and unsanitary water . . . isolated, faced with squads of trained interrogators, bullied incessantly, deprived of sleep and browbeaten into mental anguish...
...also a medic, kept records of the deaths he verified in two camps during 20 months of capture. The Chinese took the records away from him, but "I remembered the figures." Exactly 2,538. mostly American. "It was just starvation and disease," said he. "We could always feel the lice crawling over us." Care got better and fewer men died after the Korean truce talks began...
More than 50 years have passed since Father Andres first came to Granada to take over his parish of gypsies. In those days they were a wild, lice-ridden lot, and their children were growing up to be exactly the same. Father Andres tried to get them to come to the school he had set up in his sacristy, but the children, rebelling at being cooped up, refused to stay. Then, one morning while riding up the hill, Father Andres came across an old woman ex-convict named Maestra Migas leading a group of chanting children through their catechism...
Levine focuses, with the rapt attention of a G.I. picking lice out of his clothes, on the seamy side of American life. Born and raised in Boston's South End slums, he knows the harsh, scrabbling lives of the poor, and he brings their hurt faces alive in his canvases. The stock characters in Levine's more preachy pictures-fat capitalists, leering politicians and sneering cops-always look like more than types; he paints them with real anger and a genius for caricature...
Along with lice and fleas, many other kinds of parasites swarm through the bird world. Ticks suck the blood of their hosts; mites live inside their feathers or even inside the bodies of their fleas...