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The rains.(Story)(Short Story)
In morning dark, Bradson was woken by the mosque singer, as he had been each morning he had been in this Sasak village. He did not return to sleep, for another sound reached him. A sound low and monotonous at first; then rising, becoming shaped by rhythm and chorused cadence. This morning, at least, the mosque singer's call to prayer was being answered.
And Bradson knew the reason for this outpouring of prayer. From above the village he had gazed over lowlands hazed in dust; from below, he had lifted up his eyes to behold Rinjani's volcanic cone, and had seen instead smoke, of fires that had burned unchecked for weeks. Within the village, disputes had erupted ...
- Primitive People.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) April 18, 1992 700+ words
...Americans: a set where the women have names like Morgan and Silver and where "all the little girls are named Melissa, all the boys are named Max". (*) "Primitive People". By Francine Prose. Farrar Straus & Giroux; 228 pages; $20
- Why homesteaders have more fun. (Editorial)
- Magazine article from: Countryside & Small Stock Journal Belanger, Jd May 1, 1993 700+ words
...ancestors or at any so-called "primitive" people. Were their lives really so barren...holy days) than we do today. Many "primitive" people found time to sing, dance, make...have less time for living than more "primitive" people had? How can modern homesteaders...
- SHAME, SHAME MANY OF US CARRY SHAMEFUL OR EMBARRASSING EMOTIONAL SCARS THAT CAN...
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) November 12, 1991 700+ words
...person we believe we should be. He even thinks this inner sense of shame is found among primitive people. "We like to think that primitive people are free of guilt and shame. But it's not true. Every culture needs to control behavior...
- Is running responsible for the evolution of humans?(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Boyd, Robert S. November 18, 2004 700+ words
...time, they said, these physiological traits separated primitive people from the line that led to chimpanzees _ our closest evolutionary...animal or to beat a pack of hyenas to a carcass provided primitive people with a diet rich in proteins and fats. This helped them...
- The search for the first Britons: cannibalism, climate change and interspecies...
- Magazine article from: Geographical Brackenbury, Andrew March 1, 2007 700+ words
...winter conditions--would have been too harsh for such primitive people. But, as Stringer says, "Pakefield broke the mould...evidence of people in Northern Europe." So how could such primitive people have survived here? Well, the Britain that emerged as...
- Who"s "discovering" who?
- Newspaper article from: The Brandon Sun Simard, Colleen June 10, 2008 700+ words
...Nations across North America. What would these "primitive" people think of our world? Most of us drive our vehicles...learn something from their simplicity, I think. Primitive people. Now there's something to think about.
- NEANDERTHALS PRACTICED CANNIBALISM, RESEARCH SHOWS.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) October 1, 1999 700+ words
...culinary goal,'' he said. Now the question is why these primitive people - an evolutionary cousin of modern humans, although most...were found on deer bones, and remains of the animals and primitive people were discarded together, around fireplaces in the cave...
- TRADING LETTERS WITH JAPANS NAKASONE
- Newspaper article from: The Journal Record RUSSELL BAKER May 9, 1987 700+ words
...prevent it from ever being used. As we Japanese are still a primitive people, I fear few people will pay such startling prices for...prime minister.'' You see how it is, Ron. We are a primitive people. Thanks for the ``G-Men'' with Cagney. What a lousy...
