Word: moonlighters
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...ravine. I hardly saw another living presence there, yet I could hear alarming noises, like clandestine signals, before dawn. At night ephemeral animal shrieks passed through the porous walls and around 4 a.m. sporadic double-toned whistles started picking a course down the incline. A bold spell of moonlight walking told me they were merely bats and shepherds...
These women and many others point up one of the South's many paradoxes: the Southern woman, long limned in a moonlight-and-magnolia image, is emerging as rapidly as her Northern sister, perhaps faster. But she feels the tug of a centuries-old code of Southern femininity: Be a lady. Be the moral conscience of the family. Let your husband protect you from the baser things of life. Do not challenge or compete with men. Be nice to everyone, regardless of your actual feelings...
...course no single correct way to mount Shakespeare's plays, but the solutions should lie within certain limits. The Forest of Arden here can no more do without verdure and warm sunlight than the Athenian woods in Midsummer Night's Dream can do without foliage and magic moonlight. Peter Brook's recent staging of the latter in a glaring white squash court provided an unrelievedly offensive evening. This As You Like It is far from being such a total disaster, but the approach adopted does constitute a barrier rather than a bridge...
...southern Africa's white minority regimes, friendly talks with black moderates and a long tēte-å-tēte with Senegal's Poet-President Leopold Sen-ghor-not to mention the prescribed attack of gastroenteritis, glimpses of giant cape buffalo bellowing in the moonlight and a cargo hold full of souvenirs in the big U.S. Air Force 707. Then Henry Kissinger, increasingly caught in the political crossfiring back home, climaxed his two-week African tour with a series of sweeping proposals to help bridge the gap between the world's rich and poor...
...regime and may well demand severely repressive measures if social disorder continues. Many of the junior officers have basically been apolitical-docile career men satisfied to lend nominal support to the status quo. But some are beginning to question that function. One reason: low salaries have forced many to moonlight in second jobs, and they sympathize with underpaid civilians...