Word: provinciale
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Those very words echoed in millions of minds across South Africa last week. In a series of astonishing episodes, beginning with all-race voting from the Limpopo to the Cape of Good Hope, the old South Africa of segregation and oppression dissolved itself and re-emerged as a tentatively hopeful...
Many white liberals believe the idea is not entirely farfetched. They point out that the A.N.C. will be taking office but not taking complete power. It will be restrained from extreme measures, even if it wanted to take them, by other social forces like the white-dominated business sector, the...
Overnight millions of ballot papers were printed, but an hour before opening, none had arrived at our station. So there we were at 6:30 in the morning walking down the kilometer-long queue which had already formed asking very patient voters to be even more patient. By the end...
This commitment to extreme emotion -- combined with a lyrical sense of Australian landscape, whose appearance in art Boyd played a large role in re- creating, and an enthusiasm for allegory and biblical narrative resembling Samuel Palmer's -- suffused his work for the next 30 years. Naturally, this made Boyd seem...
Ionesco's conception of "rhinoceritis" remains suffused with moral and practical implications although it strives only to investigate the personal motivations and character failures that made Nazism possible. That a whole town of provincial but well-intentioned and essentially good people could succumb to propagandistic slogans and mental manipulation seized...