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...last week a bearded Korean elder, dignified and prim in starched white robe and black horsehair hat, picked his way along a reeking, raucous, filth-strewn alley in Pusan. He ignored the ragged, swarming children and the whining beggar women, who envied the succulent prize which the old man had in his hand. It was the gamy carcass of an alley cat and it was headed for the cooking...
...Mile Stench. Pusan is a city of filth, poverty and disease-yet it is the major supply port of the Korean war. Its harbor is jampacked with ships from nearly a score of nations, bringing in fresh men and equipment, taking out the wounded and sick and wrecked or worn-out equipment. Pusan's days & nights are noisy with the clatter of U.S. military traffic, ancient taxis, rachitic streetcars (some from Atlanta), and the snorting and lowing of oxen. In dry weather dust all but obscures the city's one traffic light, which is attended by a listless...
...their faith and denial of God imposes on millions of people. And most of them succeed in ignoring or suppressing that awareness. But to some there comes a time when they hear screams in the night -screams "from the execution cellars ... from the torture chambers . . . from . . . the freezing filth of subarctic labor camps." For "there persists in every man, however he may deny it, a scrap of soul." The communist who does not stifle that scrap of soul begins to lose faith in his vision of man without God. Chambers records that his own loss of faith began...
...Nothing. Leonardo comforted himself with violent denunciations of the world, expressed in some of the most savage cartoons ever drawn, and in cruel diatribes in his notebooks. "There are men," he would burst out, "who de serve to be called nothing else than passages for food, augmenters of filth, and fillers of privies!" He never married. He hated the ties of family. When his half-brother wrote him of the birth of a son, Leonardo congratulated him on "having provided yourself with an active enemy whose one desire will be for the freedom which cannot be his until...
...basically, this form which Moravia brought to perfection in his first two books, is carried out in "Two Adolescents" where a dilerious boy imagines his room and bed crawling with filth and vermin. The reality of his early works is missing and the book becomes a more confusion of philosophies and a jumble of imageries...