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Still, as they say in Southern California, one must go with the flow. In Slow Days, Fast Company that flow is generated by Babitz's fresh, distinctive sense of place: "Outside it's turned pink and the jacaranda tree is magenta, and next door the fourteen-year-old Mexican girl has finished her paper route and swung her long California-bred legs off her bike and now throws a Frisbee at her brother's head, expertly...
Spring has arrived in Rhodesia, gracing the rich, rolling farm land and the still oddly serene streets of Salisbury (pop. 569,000), where jacaranda trees are in spectacular purple bloom. This spring, however, is like no other in the country's history: it marks the crumbling of white colonial rule, which has lasted nearly a century. TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs filed this report on the scene in the Rhodesian capital...
...week-long Jacaranda Festival is in full swing. The thoroughbreds are running at the Borrowdale Race Course, the stores are holding sales, and whites out in the suburbs are talking about filling their swimming pools again. Yet there is a definite undercurrent of foreboding. At the annual Jacaranda Parade, which featured the usual floats and miniskirted majorettes (both black and white), a white housewife said calmly: "We won't see many more of these. The blacks won't bother with parades. They take too much effort and organization...
Best of all, Hone provides a portrait of Nasser's Cairo that occasionally reads like updated Lawrence Durrell -a city of dusty cricket fields and sweet coffee and the khamsin rustling the jacaranda trees, a city in which the revolutionary press censor plays badminton on the roof of his apartment house and keeps a suffragi downstairs to retrieve the stray shuttlecocks from the streets below.-Otto Friedrich
...hearse; men and boys clung to the hood and the body. Other Luos sat half naked by the road, smeared with the traditional clay of mourning, while witch doctors in white ostrich feathers and monkey-skin skirts pranced among them. Trucks, cars and buses decorated with palm fronds and jacaranda branches brought thousands more to vantage points along...