Word: flowerings
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Nestled in a fertile valley 200 miles east of Johannesburg, the village of Driefontein is a picture of rural contentment. Flower beds front its comfortable houses, cattle browse in lush pastures, and fruit trees abound. But Driefontein is different: it is a so-called "black spot," an area of black settlement surrounded mainly by white farmers. For several years, in keeping with South Africa's policy of apartheid, the government has tried to persuade the 7,000 black farmers of Driefontein to move to black "homelands" in the desolate Kangwane and Kwazulu regions. The blacks have bitterly resisted...
Kelly has imported many other tactics from the America of her youth, including an ecological concern and a belief that civil disobedience is an unassailable political weapon. The symbol she chose for the Greens, a sunflower, further suggests that the party's roots lie among the flower children. Yet because Kelly believes that the U.S. is more likely to launch a nuclear attack than the Soviet Union, she adamantly opposes U.S. foreign policies. Is she biting the hand that fed her? More likely, perhaps, Unking two hands together. For Kelly thrives on eclecticism. She alternates a Bavarian inflection with...
...Annual Lowell House Opera, by contrast, the ushers wear black velvet, the concentration of Faculty members and other non-students is high, especially on "patron night" and the sets, voices and period costumes dazzle with ornateness. Toward the end, a giant spritzer even douses the stage and audience with flower scented must...
...other night from the depths of time is in the late Summer of 1944, when the narrator Cecelia (Micol Guidelli) was a little girl in a flower print dress, and the Germany were slowly retreating through the fields of Tuscany under the onslaught of the Allies. The town of San Martino has been marked for mining by the Germans--each house crucified with a fatal slash of green paint--and the inhabitants have been ordered to gather in the Cathedral while their tiny community is to be blown up. A group of men, women, and children, under the leadership...
...course, but the heart of the issue is not legal. A procedure has been devised in which a human being is literally conceived as a manufactured product. Therefore, consciously or not, all the participants in that procedure tend to regard the product either as the flower of a growth industry or, if a flaw appears, as industrial waste...