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...rights movements. It smacks of a slightly cross-eyed fanaticism that might have amused Dickens, of battle-axes who file class-action suits in behalf of canaries. The movement has its truncheon rhetoric. Its ungainly equivalent of racism and sexism is "speciesism." Just as there is the male chauvinist pig, there presumably must be (so to speak) the human chauvinist pig...
...that helps. He now uses his own organic material, also the organic material of the chickens and buffaloes to enrich his fields." I read very precisely what he meant. Now that a peasant is responsible for the land allotted to him, he cultivates it like a garden. His excrement, pig excrement, chicken droppings are all sumped together with urine, then ladled into buckets. The peasant then pours the mixture onto each stalk. Ladling the slime onto the seedlings is smelly, unpleasant duty. But the slime works; production had been rising for three years, and the peasants ate well...
...concrete is available that it can only be economical if recognized as forced labor. Farther down the river, at Wanxian, a young woman stevedore, of the same age as the oscilloscope workers, bends and stoops; all her muscles quiver as she heaves and finally lifts two huge buckets of pig livers for the third-class passengers. She staggers, makes it, totters up the gangplank. She is followed by other young women, beasts of burden, staggering under the bales, the cartons, the loadings of the vessel. I am pleased to watch them revolt, screaming, shaking fists at the forewoman who commands...
...have two strengths: the intrigue of the subject and the author's ability to quickly construct scenes. Michener is at his best when describing the homier aspects of Polish life; his 17th century wedding festival is the strongest scene in the book. He specifies which section of the slaughtered pig is eaten by which class, and how they cook it, as well as the music, dancing, costumes, and ceremonies which make up the rest of the celebration. But that sort of immediacy is missing in most of his scenes; a potentially lively and fascinating topic literally suffocates under the weight...
...water pollution, proposed an ordinance limiting new piggeries in the traditionally pork-producing town to no more than eight swine. In the biggest turnout in village history, the issue was defeated by 110 votes. But the natives are worried. Selectman Charles Brown, whose son went to college on his pig earnings, says, "If it's pigs this time, will it be cows the next?" More likely it will be junked cars on lawns, a perennial ruburban sculpture form, at least as prevalent as the whitewashed iron jockeys in the suburban landscape...