Word: paton
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Novelist Alan Paton (Cry, the Beloved Country) has elaborated: "We never trekked, we never developed a new language, we were never defeated in war, we never had to pick ourselves out of the dust." Paton, 84, once served as president of the now defunct Liberal Party and feels the Afrikaners' tribal sense outweighed the English fondness for making money and playing golf. "The English here don't want to rule everything and everybody," he says. "Both Afrikaners and English have a love of the country, but the Afrikaner's love is in general more fierce, more emotional, more aggressive...
...Paton said that he will begin plans for thefall concert as soon as exams are over. "SPA willhave an entire summer to build it into a biggerand better event," he said...
According to Paton, the other bands have alsosaid that they plan to participate in the fallconcert. The local bands expected to perform areRick Berlin-The Movie, O-Positive, Three Colors,The Blackjacks, and Skin...
...original sponsors of the event have agreedto extend their support in the fall, Paton said.The project has secured $5000 of financial backingfrom Miller Beer, $4000 from the UndergraduateCouncil, and approximately $2000 from AppleComputer, a new sponsor...
College officials denied the SPA permission tohold the event in Harvard Stadium, and as aresult, "the whole spring weekend was scrapped,"Paton said in an interview last month