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...culture freely blended Hindu and Muslim influences. Although Indian nationalist memory glorifies cities along the Ganges like Kanpur as the centers of the revolt, Dalrymple suggests that Delhi was the true locus of the 1857 uprising. Drawing on contemporary accounts from the Indian and British sides, he paints a vivid portrait of a city under siege, giddy with the thrill of being independent, but faced with food shortages, anarchy, and the imminent likelihood of a British counterattack...
...that would have been too goody-goody. What is it Montherlant said? "Happiness writes white." Good characters - I think he's plenty vivid, but they don't quite live on the page the way monsters or semi-monsters...
...attended not only by the Red Guards and the Revolutionaries who had come to my house but also by the former staff of Shell. The man with the tinted spectacles was in charge. He was quite a fluent speaker. He started with the Opium War of 1840, giving a vivid description of how the invading fleet of Britain bombarded the Chinese coast. He spoke as if it were I who had led the British fleet up the Pearl River. He described Shell as a multinational firm and said that Lenin had stated that such companies were the worst enemies...
...granted the Arabs no voice. It is grotesque to invite the mute to sing. In Kafr Qaddum, an Arab village in the hills of the West Bank not far from Nablus, the people have strewn boulders across the road to stop intrusions. They are frightened. The sun is bright, vivid. A red-green-white-and-black Palestinian flag on a makeshift pole flies from the mosque in the distance. Now one sees the young Palestinian, wrapped in a dense, irrational thunder, walking up the road. His legs move like scissors, stiffly; his body is jolted with anger. His eyes, looking...
...that the celebrity-entertainment complex has its huge eyeball trained on the issue of child soldiers, the danger is that they will become trivialized--cheap, ubiquitous images, dropped in like clip art for a hit of emotion and danger. But with a memoir as vivid as Beah's, the clear-eyed tale of a child determinedly pursuing his own humanity against all odds, the spotlight may yet produce more than just titillation...