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...nightingales, thrushes, plovers and owls; the rivers brim with trout; and the towns are peopled by honest peasants and serene aristocrats. One recalls a nobleman's dispensation of whisky to his neighbor's yeomanry. "Unfortunately, he forgot to provide water .. . 'We had to drink it or perish miserably of thirst' . . . It took a full week-end before the last of them had found his way home." White analyzes the philosophy of fishing in a style that Izaak Walton might envy, and his descriptions of dartboard arcana and Welsh superstitions belong on the shelf alongside Dickens. Another...
...were, into the void. "Death lies at the core of each person's private existence, but part of death's meaning is to be found in the fact that it occurs in a biological and social world that survives." Were that world to perish, it would be "the second death"-the death of the species, not just of the earth's population on doomsday, but of countless unborn generations. They would be spared literal death but would nonetheless be victims-in his view the most important victims-of a nuclear...
...Mockeries feed on the fruit of the Ombu tree, remove its outer layer and allow the seed to germinate. The tree grows, plays host to a moth that fertilizes the Amela tree-upon which the island's economy depends. Will the London plutocrats get their way? Will Zenkali perish? Will Peter entice Audrey into his sleeping...
Anwar Sadat believed so completely in his mission that he was prepared to perish rather than change direction. And from that faith came the courage to face the dangers before him with his oft-repeated dictum: "This is my fate. I have accepted my fate." ?By Thomas A. Sancton. Reported by Dean Brelis/New York and Wilton Wynn/Cairo
...doesn't somebody write something about how glorious the Himalayas are and make us look a little bit better to the rest of the world?" To these college students from Calcutta, all of India was in these mountains. They described a country that was eternal, that could never perish as civilizations have elsewhere in the world. The Himalayas and the Ganges that flows from their northern slopes inspire a tranquility and stoic contentment that come from a lack of ambition and a harmonious coexistence with nature. Poverty is just an illusion fixed in the imagination of visitors to the country...