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...Then Phumiphon got into his Daimler and drove back to the palace, where he had another shower. What he thought of it all, none knew. Perhaps he shared the skepticism of his cousin, Prince Chumphot, who had officiated at a similar ceremony during the previous week. At its conclusion, Prince Chumphot had turned to a Western guest and said: 'I'm interested to know what you make of all this. Traditional, of course, you know. But pure superstition...
...grapes, plums, potatoes and asparagus each year. The union complained formally that Di Giorgio had refused to negotiate, then treated the Congressmen to its own 25-minute propagan da film called "Poverty in the Valley of Plenty." The camera poked into sordid one-room shacks, lingered on a leaky shower that served 25 families, studied hollow-eyed, ragged youngsters, while a commentator described a sordid way of life that added up to virtual peonage...
...scheme works it would end New Yorkers' dry Tuesdays and waterless weekends; city dwellers could shave two or three times a day and shower whenever they pleased...
...ordered, and there he sat, without dinner, taking his hazing. The hazers, rougher than they are these days, sought him out in barracks. They made him stand for an hour at attention holding a heavy book extended in one hand. On cold nights, he was shoved under a cold shower and his bedding thrown in with him. "He never complained, even to me," said his roommate. "This was the system and this was the life he wanted for himself...
...significantly finds this symbol of faith broken and deserted-"There is the empty chapel, only the wind's home." But at the deepest point of despair, the rumble of thunder brings promise of rain to the waste land. The poem ends with the Hindu incantation, like the first shower of long-looked-for rain, shantih, shantih, shantih, meaning: "The Peace which passeth understanding...