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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attention that approximately one week ago, every newly-elected member of the Phoenix, S.K. final club was given a live chicken and instructed by their elders to keep close contact with them while going to classes, going to final club events and so forth. Apparently, most carry the chickens around in boxes that seem to be a little over a foot square. They get jostled around between classes, take up seats (in their boxes) amongst the noisy crowds in the dining halls and are penned-up in student rooms at night (on the floor). They apparently have no time...
...humans, chickens have emotions and thoughts. Their emotions and thoughts are unlikely to be exactly like ours, but that is not really the issue. The issue is: How do chickens feel when they are cooped up in a small box? How do they feel when they are being chased around a dining hall, with people who are orders of magnitude larger than they are peering down on them? How must they feel being kept away from other chickens...
...Beach Boys, seemingly mere proto-Fonzes, have in fact done as much for America's sound as Elvis, as long as you listen around. The cool kids in middle school have their Backstreet Boys, the keen kids at Harvard have their Belle and Sebastian. And everyone has the Beach Boys...
Once the power play does get established in the offensive zone, the Crimson can whip the puck around the umbrella formation, but has struggled setting up the one final pass or getting the good deflection to light the lamp...
...great thing about Gordimers fiction has always been her success in stripping away the layers of pretense and denial and dishonesty that are built up around contemporary lives and societies. She shows the reader universal truths that are nonetheless elusive: her talent is to unveil revelation. In the nonfiction in this volume, it is Gordimers practice to reveal truths that are painfully obvious to most anybody. The subtitle of the volume is Notes from Our Century, and Gordimer makes a case study of historical progress out of her native South Africa, taking us from the world of apartheid through redemption...