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...policy statement submitted to Parliament in Cape Town described the laws as "a relic of the past." It said the system, called influx control, would be replaced by "planned, positive urbanization" involving a uniform identity document for all races...
...sinuosities of script. As he read his pages, Toad considered: The whole toad is captured here. L'ecriture, c'est l'homme (Handwriting is the man). Or: L'ecriture c'est le crapaud (Handwriting is the toad). What collectors pay for is the great writer's manuscript, the relic of his actual touch, like a saint's bone or lock of hair. What will we pay in future years for a great writer's computer printouts? All the evidence of his emendations, his confusions and moods, will have vanished into hyperspace, shot there by the Delete...
...Kirkland House fall musical speaks in itself for the play's quality. Known for several years as Harvard's autumn Hasty Pudding connection, Kirkland has gained a reputation for putting on very light, humorous, and enormously entertaining productions. To those who claim that such musicals are a relic from high school, Kirkland may prominently display its track record of success...
This from a team that was one of the last in the nation to run from the Single-Wing offense. Princeton ran the Single Wing--an anthropological relic from the Stone Age--when Dick Kazmaier won the Heisman Trophy...
...affiliated from 1976-80, has just released Classic Performances by Lou Reed: City Lights, an album attempting to chronicle the most underrated and, honestly, least coruscating years of Reed's career. These were the years after RCA, Reed's original and once-again label, abandoned him as a relic, a shadow of his past triumphs. He migrated to Arista and did a few years of soul-searching songstering (and drying up) before returning to RCA and getting back on track...