Word: derlying
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...parked my car outside Security Police headquarters, remembering past interrogations and harassments. Think Gershwin, I said to myself, as I had in those days 12 years ago, when mentally humming a piece of music helped ease the fear. During the last scary session with Colonel Andries van der Merwe in 1977, I had countered his aggression with the finale of Gershwin's Concerto in F. And now I had made an appointment with his successors to judge the extent of change among the dread Security Police in the new South Africa. Though I was no longer too scared...
...Alan Paton, Helen Suzman and Nadine Gordimer. Today younger Afrikaners are taking the lead among whites in the campaign for democracy and racial reconciliation, notably Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, a brilliant academic and former rugby star; Max du Preez, editor of the crusading paper Vrye Weekblad; and Tian van der Merwe, campaigning to close the gap between white parliamentarians and the A.N.C...
Religion, banned as a subject of instruction under the Communists, is no longer off limits, although there are not enough trained teachers or texts to make such study practicable. Anja Meixstatt makes do by introducing the concept of religious differences to her German literature class through discussion of Nathan der Weise, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's work about religious tolerance. "They may understand Lessing," she explains, "but they don't know about Israel...
...English speaker. One may be left exhausted and bewildered after navigating through cascades of clauses that lead to the elusive verb at the very end that explains everything. For sheer frustration, however, little compares with the task of remembering what gender each noun is and hence whether a der (masculine), die (feminine) or das (neuter) needs to be affixed in front of it. And then, of course, there are the declensions...
Something had to go, and last week the Philips board, led by Chairman Wisse Dekker, decided that it was Van der Klugt. The 40-year veteran was forced out. Philips, Dekker admitted at a hastily called news conference, was suffering a "crisis of confidence, the worst thing that can happen to a corporation." He then named as Van der Klugt's successor Jan Timmer, 57, chief of the firm's consumer-electronics division...