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Impressive Feat. At week's end, a shadow was cast on the settlement when five black African nations rejected it, saying that acceptance would, in effect, legalize "colonialist and racist structures of power." The presidents of Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Angola and Botswana called instead for Britain to convene a constitutional convention outside of Rhodesia. Still, the U.S. State Department seemed unconcerned, saying that the five nations had apparently accepted "the essentials" of the agreement...
...Hendrix and Joplin are releasing posthumous albums of it. Disco. May the Good Lord take me, take us all, to the great Disco in the sky. The dam has burst, and vapidity in three-quarter time now envelopes us all. Yea, though I Hustle through the Valley of the Shadow...
...will still be behind." Despite worry that the sweeping development of the region could eventually hurt the environment and the South's unhurried style of living, the mood is optimistic. The feeling is that whatever problems the future holds, the region is finally moving out of the shadow of the North and into a bright new era of unparalleled prosperity...
...burden to its inheritors. On their triumphant march, the older authors left much of the terrain scorched earth. Writers who now elect to deal in moldering mansions and history-whipped alcoholics risk unfavorable comparisons with Faulkner. Indeed, no one who writes on the South can escape Faulkner's shadow. Says Novelist Walker Percy: "The problem is how to get out from under...
...leaving only the whats and the hows. No longer will anyone dare ask a Radcliffe woman if she will work after graduation the only legitimate question is what she will do, where and when. But beside the assumption of a career lurks the ominous shadow of a husband, the how of the future, for the now so dog-eared question has yet to be answered satisfactorily: how to combine a full career with a family, removing the need to opt for one or the other...