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...doors. It is not the sort of village in which people ordinarily run-its weathered shacks squat dismally in a muddy hill hollow amid slatternly fences, outhouses and discarded tires. The women and children straggled past the empty coalies on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad spur, and up a barren knoll to the tipple of the Belva Mine. Smoke and burned fragments of cardboard and paper were puffing hotly from the tunnel mouth...
...second alternative for any realistic person with the interests of his own home and family at heart, as well as the survival of the human species, is to find a barren spot in Death Valley, a lonely crag in the Rockies, or an inaccessible farm on the Great Plains, learn the essentials of subsistence living, and settle down with a fearful prayer in his heart that perchance he will be among the scanty remnant of folk who may remain after the Atomic Age is over...
Four nights a week, in a barren, gym-like hall called Stuyvesant Casino on Manhattan's tawdry Lower East Side, Bunk and his six fellow jazzmen from New Orleans gave out with rocking hymns like When the Saints Go Marching In, drum-heavy parade music like High Society and Maryland, My Maryland, and the quick-paced I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate ("she shakes like jelly on a plate"). Their tunes were old; their playing was steady beat, banjo-plunking, authentic New Orleans-and meant to dance to. Bunk and his bandmen couldn't understand...
...Scientists hate secrecy. Their professional code compels them to tell the world about each new discovery. Besides, the greatest reward they ever get is the appre ciation of their colleagues. If they could not talk and write about their achieve ments, their lives would be barren indeed...
...small and barren office, Damaskinos labored for the poor and oppressed. His philanthropies, though not connected directly with any one resistance movement, also succored the men in the hills. He banded his clergy into the EOCHA (National Organization of Christian Solidarity) to help those interned by the occupying powers. So popular was this organization that on several occasions quisling Greeks tried to exploit it. Damaskinos fiercely resisted, kept politicians' hands off. Toward occupation's end, the frustrated Germans put Damaskinos under house arrest...