Word: burrowful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Story by Nadine Gordimer. For nearly 25 years, those who have wanted to burrow beneath the headlines from South Africa have consulted the fiction of Nadine Gordimer. Her 10th novel, which deals with a "colored" schoolteacher caught up in his country's racial strife, offers another inside view of people who are trapped and defined by the fatal abstractions of black and white...
...morning in the middle of lecture, Alex, another student in the program, noticed a muddy cloud in the stream. A few minutes later, a duck-billed platypus emerged from his burrow on the bank and swam slowly past us all, as he nudged the stream bed for food...