Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jean Heather Marris Murray, daughter of a Scottish emigrant father and a South African mother, was born in Pretoria. An Oxford scholarship took her to England, where she worked as a free-lance journalist throughout World War II. The Fire-Raisers is her first novel but is written with a skill and confidence that make it close to the most impressive story yet about the South Africa of Malanism and apartheid...
...Author Murray, Malanism is not a problem of politics or Anglo-Dutch disharmony; it is just one of the symptoms of a chronic disease which she calls "the African sickness"-a complicated ailment that has become so "normal" in South Africa that those who suffer from it are usually the last to know...
...Enclosing Mountains. Author Murray's scene is a South African valley, bounded by mountains and the sea, and speckled with the houses and shacks of Dutch, English, French and Kaffir Africans. On the surface, it is like any other valley in the civilized world-"a poor community," says old Jacob Fieldfare, "[where] someone is always frowning over a bill, or scraping to buy a new coat. We tell lies and gossip, our faces are drawn with longing for possessions and qualities which we do not have: power, personality, happiness, electric light, golf championships, more brandy, exciting friends, fame, white...
...Burning Bush. Into this ailing, ingrown community Author Murray introduces Heroine Agatha, a colored girl who passes for white and is pregnant. Agatha's only real function in The Fire-Raisers, apart from putting an end to Etienne's bachelordom. is to be utterly normal and healthy-to sit calmly, creating real life among people who are doing their utmost to dodge it. In proportion as Agatha swells in bulk, the valley dwellers swell in hysteria, as if they must at all costs escape the growing terror of the future. By the time Agatha's baby...
Tatsuo Arima of Tokyo, Japan; Philip J. Andrews of Milton, Mass.; James E. Dale Jr. of Anoka, Minn.; Robert Gilmor Jr. of Woodborn, N. Y.; David C. Jordan of Charlottesville, Va.; Michael L. Murray of Westfield, N. J.; Thomas H. Rockel (Capt.) of Storrs, Conn.; Robert Wynne of Bethlehem, Pa.; Robert J. McLaughlin (Mgr.) of West Roxbury, Mass...