America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.

He has an eye for fine porcelain dishes and figurines.

We therefore prefer to work from concepts that encompass the psychophilosophical principles (Weltanschauung) of a culture or people and descriptions of actual behavior toward other human beings.

They were cheerful enough, liked a bit of chiacking, and the women enjoyed the bawdy undertones of their jokes.