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Citing those "antisocial elements," as well as "communal disharmony, caste conflicts, atrocities against minorities" and other activities that "pose a grave threat to the lawful order," her government two months ago proclaimed a tough new national security law. The ordinance permits the preventive detention, for ten days without charge and...
Because she never married, Amy--people whispered everywhere--must have been a lesbian. Her poems, while rarely overtly referring to women, nevertheless were often distinctly sapphic in tone. Bursting fat, Amy was at the same time loud, outspoken, dictatorial and argumentative. Carl Sandburg once mentioned that, "to argue with her...
The film follows Jimmie Blacksmith, a half-caste Aborigine, as he tries to make a success of himself in the white world of which he is nominally a member. This was a time of uneasy alliances in Australia, a time of head-on collisions between races and cultures, between Britishers...
As Australia has discovered film, it has rediscovered its own past. Some of the finest Australian films (Picnic at Hanging Rock, My Brilliant Career, Breaker Morant) are set on the cusp of the 20th century, when the country was approaching federation and its citizens were struggling for an identity apart...
The caste system was most evident in access to news sources. While reporters from small news organizations were watching the action on television sets in the railroad lounge, White House "regulars" were able to get private telephone numbers and appointments. One day at the Carter press center, aides quietly told...