Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) last night passed a proposal urging the Harvard Corporation to sell all of its stock in commercial banks that extend loans to the South African government...
Cliff Saunders lived in Lowell House when he was at Harvard. He capitalized on his opportunities here and ended up graduating from law school at the University of Southern California. He could be pushing paper and people at a New York law firm, but instead Cliff paces the floors of his modest office at the BIC, stopping to gaze at the Veterans Hospital outside the window. Quite apart from the bulk of his co-aspirants in the law, Cliff wears his straight brown hair past his shoulders, dons leather around his wrists, exudes Indian brave. Cliff, too, feels that education...
...ease. Everyone in the auditorium had a common bond--a bond not shared by strangers outside the theater, walking around the Square, more than a thousand miles away from the nearest cottonfields. Inside, the air almost smelled of cotton. Boots, cowboy hats, girls with lots of make-up, southern accents and other signs of the South abounded. Everybody there felt, well, just real good...
Then Jerry Jeff sang another slow, sad song relying on a plaintive steel guitar, and lyrics that struck a common chord in all southern hearts. He was singing about being displaced and socially alienated, about wanting to leave the cold, impersonal city to go home to friends, family, farms and lovers...
...such moments, Levanter resembles Guy Grand, the cartoon millionaire-sadist in Terry Southern's The Magic Christian-a similarity that does no credit to Kosinski. But Levanter is not content merely to engineer or observe acts of humiliation. He is also an avenging angel. At an Alpine ski resort he blows up the vacationing henchman who tortures the subjects of a Middle East potentate. He devises an excruciating end for a New York hotel clerk who betrays visiting Eastern European guests to their native apparatchiks. This deed over, Levanter privately gloats because authorities cannot discover a plot linking killer...