Word: sheeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couple, with the commune's only children, three boys, braved it for much of the year but quit the experiment several months ago. The others have stayed on, raising crops and livestock, making pottery, cooking Iron Age food and spinning and weaving wool sheared from their own sheep...
...author who pioneered this transformation is John Brunner, who was Boskone's chief speaker. Brunner, in his books "Stand on Zanzibar" and "The Sheep Look Up," adapted avant-garde literary techniques to speculate on overpopulation and pollution. Brunner seemed to echo the feelings of many people at the convention when he told them, in a clipped British accent, "In my childhood I had the feeling that I was outside the existence of normal people. At a convention like this, I feel that all these strangers are on my side and I can relax...
...espresso-cappuccino machine, has increased its sales sixteenfold over the past dozen years. Says Co-Owner Murray Klein: "We have never seen such an explosion of food buying." Supermarkets from coast to coast now stock such onetime exotica as game pates, Beluga caviar, imported mustards, goat and sheep cheese, leeks, shallots, scallions, bean curd, pea pods, bok choy, capers, curries, coriander and cornichons...
...blame problems on newcomers. Many Bradfordians complain that destitute immigrants are given cash payments by the government when they disembark at Heathrow Airport, while white pensioners must scrimp along on inadequate retirement pay. Describing herself as opposing immigration, Shopkeeper Patricia Barrow is convinced that the Pakistanis inhumanely slaughter sheep and chickens according to Islamic ritual; she also fears that "colored boys will be hanging around white girls...
Vorster is a product of this society as well as its chief. One of 14 children, he was born in Jamestown, in the northeastern part of the Cape province. His father was a sheep farmer. Vorster attended the University of Stellenbosch, a bastion of Afrikaner nationalism, on a scholarship. He studied psychology and law and joined the junior wing of the National Party. In the early years of World War II he helped found the Flaming Ox-Wagon, a militantly anti-British, pro-German nationalist movement. Vorster was arrested by the pro-British government in 1942 and spent 14 months...