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...outpouring of art which began more than 5,000 years ago in the fertile Indus Valley has flooded over to enrich the lives of millions in India, Central Asia, China, Java and Cambodia. But because the main stream of Indian art flowed away from the sources that were to nourish Western art, Indian sculpture has remained something strange and remote to Western sensibilities...
...cities, reported Rowan, they soon "drift into a world of dark hopelessness." In Minneapolis, so-called "City of Hope," there are 8,000 Indians, but few employers will hire them. Jammed into rickety tenements and Skid Row hovels, said Rowan, most of them are doomed to lives that nourish "every stereotype about 'drunk,' 'dirty,' 'irresponsible' Indians...
Maybe they learn it jaywalking across traffic, or in the subway, where a fleet foot and a sharp elbow mean a rush-hour seat. Wherever they pick it up, New Yorkers nourish an abiding admiration for the man who gets there in a hurry. The hustler is their hero, so every winter they set aside certain Saturday nights to cheer the hustlers in the great indoor track meets at Madison Square Garden...
...police force could soon overcome the centuries-old code of omertá, which makes informing-even against a rival gang-the greatest sin. Commenting on last week's murders, one Palermi-ano said with undisguised pride: "The black-clad widows don't speak; nor the children who nourish in their breasts their first thoughts of hatred and vengeance. That is the way of Sicilian blood...
...This injury is irreversible. It kills some cells, but others survive, and these survivors learn to nourish themselves in an abnormal way. Instead of getting energy by "breathing" oxygen, they get it by fermentation. Though maimed, they multiply, and pass on their abnormal metabolism to their offspring...