“So I turned my face away from the sun--I turned it so it was pressed against my father's neck mostly--and then I knew, in a childish way, knew from the heat (of his neck, of his shirt collar), knew by childish deduction, that his face was unprotected from the luminousness all around us and I looked; and it was so: his face for the moment unembarrassedly, was caught in that light. In an accidental glory.”
--from "His Son, in His Arms, in Light, Aloft" by Harold Brodkey
Disasters in China and Myanmar
No time to sit back--from "His Son, in His Arms, in Light, Aloft" by Harold Brodkey
Disasters in China and Myanmar
May 15th 2008
From The Economist print edition
China has shown up Myanmar's generals. But it is not too late for outsiders to help the BurmeseBEICHUAN, China — On television, the miraculous survivor stories have begun to fade, replaced with reruns of dramatic rescues. A man who endured entombment for 148 hours in the town of Yingxiu was rescued and celebrated Sunday.From The Economist print edition
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This metaphoric term originated in baseball, where a runner who steps off a base can be put out. [c. 1940]
entombment
the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
show sb up (EMBARRASS) phrasal verb [M]
to behave in a way which makes someone you are with feel ashamed or embarrassed:
I wish you wouldn't show me up in front of my parents by getting so drunk.
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