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...There are two sides to the Communist coin in this country." The Committee, he said, is not concerned with those who share the religious, political, social, and economic views of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Khrushchev. "These people, crackpots though they may be, are entitled to their beliefs...
Moving away from the South African situation to her objectives as an artist, Miss Gordimer sees two great subjects for the modern writer. She defines them as man trying to escape from his situation and environment, and--the other side of the coin--man trying to find his place. In the past, she has worked primarily with the latter subject, but in the future she sees herself as "being led quite logically" to the former. As she points out, "I come from a part of the world where the odds are against success...
...chicken or a pound of beef. Its name dates even earlier, to the days when pennies were marked with a cross so that shoppers could divide them into fourths-or farthings. But its buying power has steadily dwindled, and by 1900 the farthing was already a children's coin -good only for a single sourball or a few winkles (non-U shellfish) at the seaside...
Reaching the hut, each Sikh dropped a coin or a bill in an offering box, then peered through a tiny glass window. Inside, on a hard mattress, lay Sant Fateh Singh, 50-year-old Sikh holy man. While doctors and disciples stood anxious watch, Sant Fateh Singh was carrying on a hunger strike. Its aim: to compel the Indian government to create a separate linguistic state in the Punjab, traditional home of the Sikhs...
...FALL DOWN, by James Leo Herlihy. An odd-lot family and a trusting girl direct their love toward a big brother and lover who pays them back in evil coin. The boy hero is the symbol of all deceived childhood, and the author ranges from the wretchedly seedy to the near lyrical with authority and originality...