Word: breds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they are less affected than the older generation by fears of the swart gevaar, or "black peril." Seven of every ten Afrikaners are city dwellers, accustomed to seeing blacks not as savages but as urbanites like themselves. More whites are working alongside blacks; and if familiarity has not always bred respect, at least it has helped to reduce racial fears. On a national level, the country's black politicians have been concentrating on achieving black power in the Bantustans, a goal acceptable to the Afrikaners. Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, 42, chief minister of Zululand, last month told white students...
Laurent (Benoit Ferreux) is the youngest son of a prosperous Dijon gynecologist (Daniel Gelin) and his Italian wife (Lea Massari). Laurent's brothers are well-bred juvenile delinquents, but despite a pronounced affection for mischief, Laurent is different. Hardly into adolescence, he reads Camus and writes essays on existentialism that vex his schoolmaster-priest (Michel Lonsdale). Father Henri further advances his pupil's education by making tentative homosexual advances during confession, and Laurent's brothers chip in to buy him a bout with a tolerant whore. Laurent-perhaps because of all this frenetic activity-develops a heart...
...predators of a sort, since they sought rare animals and thus often contributed to the depletion of some species. Now this image is changing. Thanks to the environmentalist concern over vanishing wildlife, many zoos have become latter-day Noah's arks, where rare wild animals are protected and bred against the day they may vanish from their native lands...
Maurice Hall is an uncommonly ordinary human being who manages to pass without distinction through public school and on to Cambridge. He is one of the faceless, colorless many, bred in England's pockets of middle-class provincialism...
...country, giving them clothes, names, and finally words. Though discouraged from such frivolity by her parents, Beatrix wrote and illustrated 21 animals-fairy tales in 20 years. When she married at 47, Beatrix Potter abandoned her fanciful world of writing and painting for a farm where she bred sheep for be last thirty years of her life...