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...Liberal South African whites reacted with amazement. It was as though a school board in America had said students were forbidden to read the Declaration of Independence - or "Huckleberry Finn," for that matter. Ms. Gordimer responded with high dudgeon similar to that of the ANC; she said that "if the selectors of fiction are looking for moral lessons against racism, few could be more telling than the situation in this novel...
...subject as a mother who has delivered after a fourteen-month pregnancy. For another, the argument always ruins the evening. This election has fermented into a sort of darkening inebriant that makes people ugly. I find myself going on a toxic tear and firing off lines of crackpot dudgeon - pure postelectoral rant...
...course, most of all this debate was about preparation. After a debate in which he repeatedly got downright testy with the aggressive Gore - who returned to his pushy, interjecting Round 1 roots - Bush closed with genial closing remarks he was determined, come hell or high dudgeon, to give. (And who doesn't think his closing "good luck" to Gore wasn't planned?) Like his opponent, he trawled to his questioners for eye contact, hoping for that decisive, Clintonian, feel-your-pain moment...
...care program 25. Folk singer DiFranco 26. Mardi Gras figure 28. Churchillian gesture 29. Bloomers worn around the neck 30. Auto corp. that will extend health care to gay partners 31. Bill's partner 32. He spent more than $30 million on his New Jersey Senate nomination 34. High dudgeon 37. Reuben need 39. Hardly a blabbermouth 41. 1998 animated film 43. Phrase in disco names 44. Iron: prefix 45. He's at odds with 16-Down 47. OPEC units 48. Fool 49. Org. that will study cell-phone safety 50. Trent's predecessor 52. Simile center 53. Prefix with...
...Force proving ground on the Web 47. __ 51 (location photographed by 44-Across's satellite) 49. African leaders met in Zimbabwe to discuss peace in this war-ravaged nation 51. Clinton wants to close the "__ Divide" 53. Autobahn autos 54. Org. with a much quoted journal 55. High dudgeon 56. Kind of crime 57. Indy time 58. Three dots, in Morse code...