Word: live
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emphasizes that the way Rosa chooses is not necessarily hers. "I haven't got the Rosa kind of commitment--it would be terrible to let you think that of me. It's kind of a holy mystery to me, that commitment. What makes them absolutely sure they couldn't live any other...
Rosa finds it impossible to live with herself on any other terms, but Gordimer has chosen a path she lambastes in her novel--moral but not overtly political commitment. "There is an uneasy middle ground. I know because I live on it," she says. "You take all kinds of stands that you find ridiculous later. For a long time, I refused to own a house because I felt badly about owning something blacks couldn't. But every time I travel--on a segregated bus--or go to any cinema. I'm doing things blacks...
...time a 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...
...cinch to untangle. His rapid-fire style is possible because Wolff refuses to become mired in the devastations of youth. The straightforward manner could only be assumed by someone who has weeded an overgrown and tangled history and arrived at a resolution with which he can comfortably live...