Word: continental
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INSIDE SOUTH AMERICA, by John Gunther. A political travelogue of the South American continent, conducted by an expert tour guide who knows all the sights and sounds but moves too briskly to explain them thoroughly.
White missionaries are in trouble throughout much of Africa. A decade after the continent's initial leap toward independence, Christianity faces a new and ominous hostility on the part of black leaders, who resent the churches as vestigial relics of colonialism. In recent months, a number of priests and...
INSIDE SOUTH AMERICA, by John Gunther. A political travelogue of the South American continent, conducted by a tour guide who knows all the sights but moves too briskly to explain them thoroughly.
Out of Focus. Such tidbits illuminate a subject; they do not necessarily explain it. In grappling with the riddle of South America, a continent that was colonized half a century before North America and is still trying to catch up with modern times, Tour Guide Gunther sometimes finds the going...
On the Brink. Gunther left South America with the conviction that it is "on the brink of revolution." Maybe- but it has been on the brink for quite a while. In all, he spent only six months touring an area twice the size of the U.S., and his book, like...