Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What a difference a few months make: South African Archbishop Tutu's candidacy for the Board of Overseers created quite a fuss among alumni last year, and both sides of the divestment issue took turns at dishing out the rhetoric. Robert P. Wolff '54, who directs the pro-divestment alumni group which nominated Tutu, often said Tutu's mere presence on the Board could force Harvard to divest completely from South Africa-related investments...
...Wolff quietly changed his tone this week when he learned Tutu would attend his first Overseers meeting tomorrow. South African investments are not on the agenda, so Wolff said Tutu would probably not bring...
Members of the cast and crew have unflinchingly remained true to the bleak realities of Fugard's vision, even down to the use of words in African dialect. Boesman and Lena are portrayed at a moment of severe crisis and, admirably, the performance does not shrink away from the appropriate intensity. The audience is rightly exhausted by the play's conclusion and deeply touched as well...
Lori E. Fein's article, "Don't Legitimate Propaganda" (November 2), which supports Harvard Divinity School's refusal to allow on its premises a conference on Israeli-South African ties, deserves response on several counts...
...South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, whose candidacy for the Board of Overseers stirred up a hornet's nest of controversy last spring, will attend his first Board meeting this weekend...