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...road and we had to use a four-wheel drive to get back into this camp. I had been insulated from extreme poverty before because I lived in one of the settlements. This man lived in a traditional round mud constructed hogan, with no windows, a hole in the roof to let out smoke and let in light, and an old mattress on the floor for a bed. The ceremony he did with me involved my humbling myself before all of nature, and truly feeling, through intensive prayer and meditiation, that all nature, all existence, is interdependant...
...notable success, to counsel the young. Residents of a West Virginia hill town adjust to living in an environment better suited to mountain goats. "How many places do you know," one of the townspeople asks Roueché, "where you can stand at the basement door and spit on the roof of a three-story house?" Visiting a small German-colonized town in Missouri, Roueché reveals that the passage of more than a century has left the place astonishingly unchanged. If the little community of Hermann were to be picked up and set down somewhere in Germany, Roueché convincingly...
...sort of laissez-faire attitude toward student indiscretions within the privacy of their rooms, but outside in the street the police are constantly cruising, checking and rechecking to try to prevent that next crime. "The majority of the time it's just routine," Shannon says, "but other times the roof falls...
...theater that first housed Shakespeare's plays was not merely named the Globe, it was the globe. Under its famous open roof humanity passed in review. It was a whore and a fool and a murderer and it laughed; it was a virgin The theater that first housed Shakespeare's plays was not merely named the Globe, it was the globe. Under its famous open roof humanity passed in review. It was a whore and a fool and a murderer and it laughed; it was a virgin and a king and a samaritan and it mourned...
...jealousy and vengeance is a simple one, diverted by the author's irrepressible gusto: in New York, a woman's eyes turn "a green that was so fierce, Isaac had to grab the wall." In Ireland, the sky is so dark, "the elves must have put a roof on Cashel Hill." Shouts of murderers and comedians sound across the Hudson and Liffey rivers. Episodes in Nighttown and the underworld consciously echo the rhythms of James Joyce and Saul Bellow, but Charyn manages to sustain his own peculiar tone, a unique amalgam of psychological insight and scatological farce...