Word: capes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Opposition turned violent near Johannesburg, where more than 100 people were injured as police used tear gas and sjamboks (whips made of hide) against Indian demonstrators. Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha is nonetheless determined to proceed with the three-part Parliament, which will begin deliberations in Cape Town later this month...
Should marriage vows cover more than five years? Must infants be so swaddled? Need adolescents feel guilt? Before televison cameras, on hundreds of lecture platforms, in thousands of lines of print, Margaret Mead emphatically doubted it. Flouncing her cape, thumping her cherry-wood walking stick and shouting, "Fiddlesticks!" (her battle cry against cant), she became one of those native oracles, full of cranky common sense and hearty exhortation that Americans cannot resist...
August is holiday time. France heads for the beach, Congress for home, and psychiatry for the asylum of Truro on Cape Cod. What makes for a holiday? Not time off from work. That happens on weekends, and no one calls that a holiday. Nor merely leaving home. That happens on business trips. Ask Willy Loman. On holiday one escapes more than work or home. One leaves oneself behind. The idea of holiday is a change of person, the remaking of oneself in one's own image. The baseball camp for adults, for example, where the bulky stockbroker, facing...
...Madden, an unsuccessful writer approaching 40, grieves over the departure of Patty Lareine, the wealthy wife whom he loves and hates to distraction. It is November, and the tip of Cape Cod retains nothing of its summer weekend splendors: "Provincetown was as colorful then as St.-Tropez, and as dirty by Sunday evening as Coney Island." Confused and lonely, Madden stalks the deserted streets and dunes by day and repairs in the evening to a local restaurant, where he sits in the bar and drinks too much. He is conscious of his new status as an unaccompanied stag and approves...
...like the Cameroons team," said Arnold L. Bossi of Cape Cod, adding. "They're just crazy like kids out having a wonderful time for 90 minutes. They're the most imaginative--and launch lightning attacks you couldn't begin to block, like Brazil used...