Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other council candidates spoke out against city investments in South Africa-related banks, non-binding referendum question that will be on the ballot November 6. The Cambridge Anti-Apartheid Coalition, which merges Harvard and city groups concerned with the issue, promised to redouble their efforts as the election approached...
...sensuousness, conveys Rosa's struggle with an immediacy that makes detachment impossible. She bombards us with images harsh and lush; passion for the country whose policies she hates scorches the pages, evoking South Africa's beauty, sordidness and terror. She moves from the overripe living room of an apartheid apologist to the stinking hut in a black township, from the lucid vigor of South Africa to the luxury of the Rivieva. Her prose mimics the near-cryptic, emotionally loaded economy of poetry, with all its symbolic richness. Reading this book is almost like plowing through about 400 pages of poetry...
...conflicts did not always exist for Rosa. Since childhood, she has routinely subordinated her life to what she calls the Future--the utopia of a South Africa without apartheid or capitalism. Her parents ask her for sacrifices as calmly as one would ask for directions. Rosa fakes a romance with a political prisoner to smuggle messages, hides excruciating cramps from her first period to bring her mother a quilt in prison, watches her parents and her brother die stoically...
...social inanities, Baasie calls Rosa in the middle of the night. Raging, he taunts her for her pride in Lionel, reminding her that anonymous black men are killed every day, and they are no less heroic than her father. She counters brutally until they fall tidily into the roles apartheid has prescribed for them--bitter black, guilty white...
...Harvard students don't focus on dissidents in the Soviet Union or the boat people or the victims of apartheid, they are not students but just a part of the system, Soni says...