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...sparkplug of Faulkner's mutiny is an illiterate French corporal, who is drawn in Christlike dimensions and has attracted to himself twelve disciples. The 13 roam the Allied front on leave, even, it is believed, cross no man's land to carry to the Germans the message of peace-on-earth. The corporal, the Christ-figure, is so vague, his powers so unexplained, as to be a symbol without point. But literal lack of point has never bothered Faulkner, nor has the smothering wrap of coincidence. The corporal turns out to be none other than the illegitimate...
City agents still roam the impoverished farms in the Japanese countryside, "contracting" the services of farmers' daughters. Despite growing opposition to the ancient custom, such arrangements apparently are quite acceptable in the rural areas. Said the Labor Ministry report: More than two-thirds of the parents interviewed by government researchers in two prefectures felt that prostitution was a "proper occupation" for their daughters. Many approved on the grounds that the girls "couldn't find any other job which could support the whole family...
...Some Honor. The history of northern India is studded with the names of notorious outlaw dacoits who roam the hills in the name of Kali, robbing the rich, comforting the poor, and in general spreading terror and rough justice. No dacoit in modern times ever became so feared or respected as Man Singh in the years that followed his great oath of vengeance. Villages over an area of 8,000 square miles learned to tremble at news that his gang was near. Few moneylenders dared call in the police when Man Singh sent them the chopped-off finger...
...wrote Mahatma Gandhi, "is the mother to millions of Indian mankind. She is a poem of pity." By tradition and training, many another devout Hindu through the centuries had assumed the same attitude toward the beasts who roam India's city streets and country lanes by the millions. It is a statutory crime in India to kill a cow. In 1944 a high-caste Hindu, who accidentally let one of his own cows strangle herself, was forced to roam the streets for three days with a halter around his neck, mooing for food and forgiveness...
...recent years, the increasingly modern-minded Hindu has begun to look with less favor on his sacred cattle. The "dedicated bulls," which from time immemorial have been set free to roam the country as walking memorials to dead Hindus, are no longer of carefully selected, high-breed (Brahman) stock as they once were, but more often cheap, scrub calfs with little breeding and less manners. Their cows are mostly skilled and shifty thieves who are set free by their owners each day to filch and pillage in other men's gardens, garbage cans and vegetable stalls before returning home...