Word: ear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soon to announce new measures that would be "extralegal" and "extremely harsh" to stop the banditry. As Nkomo listened quietly, Mugabe warned: "These men are ZAPU and the weapons are from ZAPU." Mugabe said the government had been far too lenient on ZAPU. Declared he: "We may demand two ears for one ear and two eyes for an eye." The swords are drawn and it will be a luta continua [constant battle] to the finish." -By Kenneth M. Pierce. Reported by Marsh Clark/Harare
...poor An dean country with a large uneducated Indian population, the is sues and responsibilities are sharpened. "If you are a writer," says Vargas Llosa, "you are a privileged man in this kind of society." Many of his conservative countrymen have felt that he has abused the privilege. Those ear lier Vargas Llosa novels, some written while he lived in Europe, were glaring reflections of Peruvian oppression and corruption and the Latin cult of virility. The most stylish was Conversation in the Cathedral (1975), in which the country was symbolically depicted as a brothel during the administration of President Manuel...
...been detected. Self-satisfaction is not unknown here, and the degree to which Chautauqua is Waspy, churchy and arty recalls an era when culture in the U.S. was a conspiracy between the pastors and the women, and manly men sulked as they were dragged to concerts by the ear...
Fortunately, there are summer festivals of instrumental music that satisfy hardier listeners seeking sustenance for both mind and ear. In California, the Cabrillo Music Festival, observing its 20th anniversary this year, will present world premieres by composers like Conlon Nancarrow, 69, an American expatriate who has lived in Mexico City since 1940 and who writes his music for player piano. On the programs of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, works by living composers like John Harbison, Richard Wernick and Yehudi Wyner coexist peacefully with those of Haydn and Smetana. And for devotees who must have their daily dose...
...year-old girl named Waffa was asleep when her home fell on top of her. She is asleep now too. Her head is shaved where they operated. Her left ear is blackened, her left eye swollen red. Below it, her cheek is sheathed in a purple-gray plaster. Her brain is damaged. She will be partly paralyzed for life. Beside her bed sits her older sister, who cannot bear to look. She stares instead at the open window...