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Among them are Bamford and Maureen Smales, a liberal Johannesburg couple with three small children. As the rioting spreads, they turn to July, the black man who has been their servant for 15 years. He piles them into a van and guides them to his ancestral village, nearly 400 miles away. This "crash from the suburb to the wilderness" takes three torturous days and nights to accomplish...
Hardest of all is their total dependence on July himself. They owe him their lives, yet the Smaleses find it galling that the servant has become their master. He insists on keeping the keys to the van; they do not want to trust him with this power over their fates. He still maintains the routine of serving them, bringing them tea in the morning and shopping for supplies; they wonder if this behavior is not reproachful, a way of setting them apart from the life of the village. The white wife cannot join the women in their daily routines...
...imagine that my life is filled with politics. It is not the first in my order of priorities. Politics is the servant of science and the humble interpreter of philosophy. It does not have the creative virtue of art. Estranged from the knowledge of nature and the workaday life of man, politics is like a cut flower, quickly withered. I have worked, dreamed, loafed, learned to love things and beings. Nothing speaks to me better of spirit and matter than the light of summer at 6 o 'clock in the evening as seen through a stand of oaks...
...eight, the St. Louis waif was farmed out as a servant. At 13, after hanging around a local theater, she signed on to the vaudeville circuit and made two discoveries: she could hold a note, and she could hold an audience...
...undergraduate bystanders. One compared Castro favorably to Batista, not only contradiction the testimony of those at the rally who had fought both dictators, but also obscuring the main theme of the meeting. The Cuban people want neither Castro nor Batista. The demand freedom. However, that commentator, long a servant of Soviet aggression as head of the Peace Alliance and the El Salvador Committee, seems unfamiliar with the desire for democracy, and his statement is thus not surprising...