Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prominent white liberal university in South Africa offered her an honorary degree. Although the university had fought against apartheid, it was supported by government funds. Gordimer did not accept the degree. "I received harsh criticism for that. Even friends said I was wrong. But I have to live my life and make these decisions by myself...
Gordimer does not choose Rosa's way--and you sense regret, self-condemnation, and a wry self-knowledge that she could not live Rosa's life. Nevertheless, she seems to have confronted and accepted her personal commitment as an artist. "I do my work. I tell the truth as I see it. I say what I think, here and there," she says, proudly...
...priming him for the trade, but Sobhrai doesn't do himself justice. Accompanied by two or three of his gang--a strange Pakestanian named Ajay, a marvelous Melanesian named May, an oafish Belgian named Hugey and a 30-year-old Canadian farmer's daughter who throws away her sedate life for the promises of a man she met once in Bangkok--he roams the Asian continent, Sobhraj is more than a simple drug and rob man; he is a conman, hustler and egomaniac. And he is successful...
VOTED IN 1948 by Life magazine as "the best place to live in America," Madison, Wisconsin still seemed to have it all in the early sixties: 'scenic beauty, nice homes, good jobs and a great university'. The American Dream incarnate. In those days, even the football team...
...most riveting interview was filmed from within a Wisconsin State Correctional Institution. The life of Karl Armstrong runs like a dark thread through The War at Home. Now serving a 23 year prison term, Armstrong was convicted of murder in connection with the bombing of the Army Math Research Center in 1970. He has been called "the bitter fruit of a bitter season." But his story means far more; Karl Armstrong symbolizes the progression of the anti-war movement from leaflets to sit-ins to dynamite. Clubbed at the Democratic National Convention in 1968, he vowed never...