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...them. Perhaps an accident of planning has left you an escape route, and you break out, breathless, into the welcome air of some more coal yards. But do not count on your escape. For eventually you must arrive at that squalid square where all the one-way signs point inward. It is a large area, teeming with unshaven men who will approach you and offer you fifty dollars spot cash for your car and throw in a train ticket to Boston; a square where cars go to die. Sell your car there, and be glad to get out alive...
Native crime has made white South Africa tense and fearful. Johannesburgers barricade their doors at night, and many sleep with .25 automatics tucked under their pillows. Yet fear seeps in. It is an inward-growing fear, the kind that made a Nationalist M.P. cry out recently: "I can't bear this apartheid. I don't know what to do." It was a fear movingly described by Author Alan Paton in Cry, the Beloved Country: "Which do we prefer, a law-abiding, industrious and purposeful native people or a lawless, idle and purposeless people? The truth is that...
About this inward theme of guilt and redemption rages the outward action of the book. In 1348 the Black Death tore through Bedesford like a cyclone; fewer than a third of the townsfolk survived. Then came the plague of the fallow deer and the flood of the Wode. Yet Edwin and Jeanne, Jack and Joan, Alfred and Juliana went on working and breeding, and soon the fields were up to mark again and the population almost normal...
...order to permit undergraduates in the College and Radcliffe to explore their interests in the field of education, the faculty ruled that they could count inward their bachelor degrees three half-courses offered by the faculty of education...
...inward pressure on the Cairo government to do something against the British also grew by the day. Mobs roaming through Cairo cried for arms and blood revenge, and were stopped finally by police firing into the air. The cabinet met to discuss breaking off diplomatic relations with Britain. Over Egypt's restless land hung the expectancy of more trouble...