Word: boer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talking to Winston Spencer Churchill. Churchill was kicking around the world as a correspondent. I noticed he liked to watch the reaction when he stuck out his hand and said, "Hullo, I'm Winston Churchill." For he resembled his grandfather's pictures taken when that young Winston covered the Boer War at the turn of the century--boyish and freckled, greedy for trouble. Now, behind the police lines, Churchill and I chatted with a guilty, voyeur's air, as if awaiting some illegal sporting event--a cockfight or a sloppily organized human sacrifice...
...fictional Powers programs the neural simulator, reads to it great chunks of literature and history, questions it and eventually is questioned by it: "What race am I? What races hate me?" The big network likes Mozart and knows "something about the Dreyfus case and the Boer War" but is ignorant of such things as "corks stuck in bottles, the surface of a liquid reflection ... wrappers and price tags, up versus down, the effects of hunger ..." The hero comes to think of the computer as female and calls it Helen...
...young, energetic Irish immigrant in Australia at the turn of the century. Tim Shea is a good, intelligent man, the kind of big, decent fellow that men and women like. But he is thought to be dangerously political, no great admirer of the British Empire, and this during the Boer War, a time of obligatory super-patriotism. Give Shea some troubles; he's half a day's receipts from bank- ruptcy, supporting a raft of relatives, too kindly to press customers for payment. Too soft altogether; he is strangely affected by the death of an unknown young woman...
Afrikaners have traditionally defined themselves with the word boer, meaning farmer; many are wealthy and accustomed to wielding political power. They might be expected to fight any claim to the land they have been farming for decades, no matter how they obtained it. In fact officials say they have been surprised at how ready some whites are to cooperate. Farmers are becoming receptive to negotiations on restitution claims...
...election-eve bombings are more likely to signal the last gasp of a weak, splintered racist Afrikaner minority than the start of the long-threatened great Boer revolt. Three of the 32 arrested are close to Terreblanche, including leaders of his personal bodyguard unit, the elite Iron Guard. The long, resolute march of democracy has caused deepening divisions within the white right. "The bombing campaign," says Wim Booyse, a political consultant in Pretoria, amounts to "a struggle for control of the heart of the right wing...