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...trickle of water left after rebels destroyed the city's chief water main for the 18th time in nine years. Corruption still runs rampant in the ranks of U Nu's own governing party, the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League, while countless vague insurgent groups roam the hills and even the streets of Burma's cities. In many places law and order scarcely exist, and Communist atrocities, like the murder last week of a riverboat captain and three of his passengers, rate only a few paragraphs in local papers. Rebels of one kind or another...
...Lord Ramachandra. would turn up in their village in the guise of a sadhu, or holy man, and from then on. all would be well. This faith has long made their village a favorite target for the hordes of self-appointed holy men (estimated total: 8,000,000) who roam all over India like carnival medicine men in the frontier U.S., wandering the face of the land in search of a quick rupee, with little to attest to their powers but a loin cloth, a straggly beard and a fanatic mien...
Somehow, Dashiell Hammett picked up the reputation of an ultra-realist. He's far from that. The very picture of a golden falcon, encrusted with jewels, sought by a group of incredible characters who roam the world searching for it, is fairy tale material. The realism lies in Hammett's dialogue, his insistence upon accurate details. Hammett's detectives were never brilliant thinkers; Sam Spade is a tough monkey with a head as soft as the next guy's when it meets a flying blackjack or a loaded whiskey. Hammett's policemen aren't nice fellows; there is little romance...
...Harvard Club of New York the same month that his original proposal appeared. Again he emphasized the importance of the inter-departmental, intellectual cross-fertilization, of getting "university-minded men" to help counteract the divisive effect of Harvard's size, of commissioning "outstanding scholars who would be free to roam about the entire university...
...down the American servicemen in their country. Having spent four years in the U.S. Navy, I have seen broken and ruined furniture in some of the finest hotels in Europe, all left behind by G.Ls. As a lot they are a group of vulgar-mouthed, bragging, drunken apes who roam the streets of foreign countries seeking someone to insult or something to destroy...