Word: lithic
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...Orgosolo. The shepherds of Sardinia are elemental men. Short, square, silent, they look like the rocks of their rocky land, like faintly sentient boulders. The big island's landowners and the rural police consider them scarcely human and treat them accordingly. The shepherds bear their lot with lithic indifference. All day long they drive their tiny flocks from pasture to sere pasture, working literally like dogs. In the evening they eat curd and flatbread. At night they sleep sometimes in rude stone huts, sometimes on the mountainsides among their sheep. They live for their sheep-they would die without...
Other things are authentic about Birdie: the real Ed Sullivan is more lithic than life playing Ed Sullivan, John Daly is no mystery guest, and many of the songs and production numbers from the Broadway original are worked in, along with a few members of the cast. Hollywood's Ann-Margret, a too authentic 21, is a mighty big girl to be playing a 16-year-old. But her frisky dancing and cheery chirpings do help to keep Birdie from falling off the perch...
...sexual morality. More recently and more subtly men like Riesman have implied a relative lack of anxiety in a simple, unchanging social situation. In one way or another, men have longed for the stable uncomplicated primitive life, whether it be on a South Sea island or in a Neo-lithic farming community. The ford myth of an effortless Eden dies hard, stubbornly resisting the evidence of numerous expeditions of this kind. It is too dear a dream to be extinguished by mere facts...
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