Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than Africa. The cities look like smaller versions of our own, and small towns in the Transvaal look just like the Midwest, complete with Kentucky Fried Chicken and Burger King. It looks like home, the part of South Africa where the white population lives--so peaceful, so comfortable and modern. I find it easy to relax, to forget what this standard of living is built...
South Africans also look hard for more modern parallels. Stories about racism in the States appear fairly frequently in the newspapers, as if someone is saying to the U.S., "let those without sin cast the first stone." (Stories about disinvestment by institutions like the American Friends Service Committee are buried in the back pages of the white papers, though they are more prominently displayed in black papers like Percy Qoboza's Post.) But the U.S. is clearly some kind of symbol to South Africans, though it is a confused one at best. To blacks, it seems to be a place...
Walters, herself a 1974 Time magazine leader of the future, considers her interviews with Cuba's Fidel Castro. Israeli Prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and the Shah of Iran her best. Her November 1977 interview with Begin and Sadat, the first time in modern history that leaders of the two countries had been interviewed together, was a "forecast of things to come," Walters said...
...rationalist theory, put forth by early suffragists as well as modern feminists such as Betty Friedan, claims that rationality dictates even the life of the family, and will eventually produce a world in which women would have the same opportunities and responsibilities as men. Ehrenreich and English contend that both of these theories fail to provide a viable role for women. This failure resulted in a cult of professionalism; women became dependent on experts who could explain why they felt unfulfilled...
...obsolete dot his plays: cooper, wheelwright, alchemist, bellman. His language glitters with marvelous words that have, alas, also become obsolete: porpentine (porcupine); swound (faint); german (akin); caitiff (wretch); borthens (the hair of corpses); grise (a stair); bisson (blind). However immortal, Shakespeare, no less than Aristophanes or Mozart, needs his modern interpreters...