Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sake of humanity. Other black African countries are ambivalent about him. A few African leaders, notably Tanzania's Julius Nyerere and Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, have spoken out strongly against Amin; the majority find him a terrible embarrassment but have remained silent. They realize that Amin's buffoonery has sometimes obscured a far more serious problem, the black-white struggle in southern Africa, and has given the white governments of Rhodesia and South Africa an easy excuse for condemning black leadership. But few countries in Africa, or indeed in the Third World, are prepared to oppose Amin...
...question is valid and not terribly important to the novel. For the purposes of his argument, Percy harries Lancelot into an extreme position. Taking both his hero's part and that of the silent but attentive priest, the author stages a debate in which the middle ground has been blasted away. "I cannot tolerate this age," Lancelot raves in his cell. "What is more, I won't. That was my discovery: that I didn't have...
Nevertheless, Pink Collar Workers is a sound addition to the literature of women that has emerged in the past few years. Although she is not completely successful, Howe's attempt to chronicle the perspective of that silent majority of women in the labor force is a useful one; her effort to give body to the statistics gives them a force that is lacking in the economist's graphs...
...eventually renounced Buddhism and became a professional painter in the metropolis of Yang-chou. His "Echo" is a definitive understatement: on the left, a mountain made of brushstrokes swirls up out through clouds (also defined by the texture of the stroke). A tremulous, finely-drawn bridge spans the silent gap between this huge statement and a smaller hill that echoes it. The echo is seen, heard and felt...
Asked if she had felt abandoned by France, she replied: "I think you all saw a film on French television in September 1975." Then she fell silent and seemed on the point of breaking down. The film, shot by French reporters in the rebels' desert camp, had movingly shown her in tears, denouncing France for having forgotten her. On French TV, it created a national sensation and put President Valery Giscard d'Estaing under intense pressure to find some way of securing her release...