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Coke is now inextricably woven into the very fabric of 20th century American history. All of our fathers started taking all our mothers out "for a Coke" at the corner soda counter. GIs thoughout our history have punctuated their between battle rest with an ice-cold bottle of Coca-Coda...
Through dozens of such interviews, Swanson evokes tensions apartheid produces both within and among South Africans, regardless of race. Irrational prejudices form the fabric of daily life, creating a host of often debilitating psychological and social distortions. According to one Afrikaner, one of the first lessons white South Africans receive in their military service is to expect Blacks guerillas to return their fire; many whites would otherwise have considered Blacks incapable of such a feat...
DIED. Angelo Donghia, 50, American interior decorator whose contemporary design innovations, including severe upholstery on plumply overstuffed furniture, shiny lacquered walls and unusual combinations of fabric textures and patterns, became widely popular through shrewd marketing arrangements for products carrying his name; of pneumonia; in New York City. The first U.S. home-furnishings designer to endorse a line of sheets, in 1973, Donghia went on to promote his own decorating fabrics, furniture, china and glassware. His Manhattan office, which he called "gray flannel heaven" for its trademark men's suiting wall covering, welcomed such famous clients as Diana Ross, Ralph Lauren...
...returning the gaze of the community to this core question, public protest invites us to ask why Harvard is acting as both a beneficiary of, and accomplice to, racial oppression. We are forced to examine the tear in our own social fabric, the racial separation of truth and power, which allows such a scandal to go on in the midst of a community dedicated to the ideals of truth and justice. Are we a community which knows the price of everything and the value of nothing...
...fact, Amis is quite the scold. His Rabelaisian comic gift cuts savagely at the patchwork of relativism and materialism that passes for modern social fabric. The novel's loutish hero, John Self, is a grotesque victim of life in the fast lane: "I hate people with degrees, O-levels, eleven-pluses, Iowa Tests, shorthand diplomas," says Self. "And you hate me, don't you. Yes you do. Because I'm the new kind, the kind who has money but can never use it for anything but ugliness...