Word: lice
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CONTEMPORARY SOURCES often refer to the Civil War as the rich man's war and the poor man's fight. It is the heart and mind of the South's poor man that Keneally explores inConfederates. He describes the soldiers of Virginia in 1862--already accustomed to the lice which infest their ragged uniforms, to the diarrhea which attacks their bowels. They have established their own social hierarchy as new soldiers yield to crotchety veterans and all share a degree of good-ol-boy autonomy. They see their side as the "democratic army," in which the soldiers elect...
...public parks. The program has been singularly successful, so much so that it has tended to show up the Communist regime's failures by comparison. Says a former public health service physician: "In a city where mail remains undelivered, garbage litters the streets, schools are infested with lice, and terror and crime stalk the streets, the only thing the Communists gave us is dancing in the park...
Many are gorgeous, and Moliére succeeds as spectacle if not as drama. There is a wonderful celebration in the royal gardens, with fireworks and dancing fountains. Throughout there is a keen sense of place, of dirt next to grandeur, the greasy, lice-infested hair underneath those magnificent 17th century wigs. But Mnouchkine the writer has failed Mnouchkine the director. Without the mind to engage it, the eye inevitably wanders. She has provided a rich and enticing dessert but neglected the main course...