Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until One Man's Family is crossed with the Lone Ranger, U.S. radio will have no program quite like Un Homme. It is as French Canadian as the words of Alouette. The 45 characters who wander through the script portray life in la province during the 1890s. There is Caroline Malterre, an empty-headed little widow and gossip who runs the village tavern. There is Alexis Labranche, the jolly mayor. And there are a couple of rascals: Notary Lepotiron and a no-good half-breed, Bill Wabo. (Any French Canadian no-account is now apt to be called...
...streets cast furtive looks at the countless charred, gutted vehicles, and will not go near the recently dangerous areas for any price. Even though most of the bodies have been taken away, the unholy sweet stench of death lingers in many neighborhoods. Streets are still stained with blood. Cows wander aimlessly through Clive Street-the Wall Street of India-stopping in the shadow of its high buildings to munch at scattered garbage...
...Seven, Alexander Jackson, once tried to explain why their roughhewn version of Paris' impressionism was just the thing for painting Canada. Wrote he: "From sunlight in the hardwoods with bleached, violet-white tree trunks against a blaze of red and orange, we wander into the denser spruce and pine woods where the sunlight filters through; gold and silver splashes playing with startling vividness on a birch trunk or patch of green moss. Such a subject would change entirely in ten minutes, and unless the first impression was firmly adhered to, the sketch would end in confusion...
Stealthy Neutrons. Most dangerous of all are the neutrons, which can wander almost at will through most kinds of matter. When they hit an atom's nucleus, they produce a dangerous gamma ray and lose a little of their speed. Eventually they are "captured," but the nucleus which captures them is apt to be unstable. Sooner or later it may disintegrate with another burst of rays, alpha, beta or gamma. Some elements, riddled with neutrons, quiet down in minutes or hours. Others radiate thousands of years...
...ironic inhumanity of all this is that there is still food in Hunan. Scores of beggar children wander with chopsticks and empty rice bowls through Hengyang or lie exhausted in the gutters, but the city's restaurants still serve ten-course feasts for those who can pay. We ate such a meal one night as guests of the local newspapermen, whose slightly fantastic prelude to the banquet was the presentation of carefully wrapped samples of the clay, weeds, rice husks and grass on which people were starving not far from our table...