Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bloodshed. On the other hand, Mandela contends with some justification that right-wingers in De Klerk's security forces are aiding Buthelezi and that the President has been reluctant to put a tighter leash on them. Last week he charged that De Klerk's "Iron Fist" crackdown policies in the townships ignored the problem and that peaceful negotiations were in jeopardy...
...IRON by J.M. Coetzee...
...Just days before, Mrs. Curren watched helplessly as Bheki taunted and beat the drunken Vercueil. "How will they treat their own children?" she scolds Florence, her maid and Bheki's mother. "What love will they be capable of?" "They are good children," Florence responds without apology. "They are like iron, we are proud of them...
Coetzee is not so forgiving. In his sharply drawn Age of Iron, black parents who refuse to instill in their children a respect for the sanctity of life are as responsible as the ruthless police and indifferent whites for spawning youths who "start by being careless of their own lives and end by being careless of everyone else...
...Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver -- Environmental catastrophe meets Native American mythology. The Final Club by Geoffrey Wolff -- Class warfare at Princeton during the 1950s. Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman -- Fictional characters caught up in the factual bombing of Move headquarters by Philadelphia police in 1985. Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee -- South Africa, with cancer as a metaphor for apartheid. Rabbit at Rest by John Updike -- Harry Angstrom hops offstage, perhaps to meet his maker. The Further Inquiry by Ken Kesey -- The head Prankster rerolls the legendary cross-country bus trip. Tender by Mark Childress -- For the character Leroy...