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...started early in the week when Soweto's young militants, in an effort to sustain the black demonstrations against racial discrimination, called on all Soweto workers to stay home from their jobs in Johannesburg for three days. With leaflets, with placards, with shouted threats, they warned everyone to support the strike or pay the consequences. "Give our regards to your white masters," one worker on his way to Johannesburg was told. "We'll be waiting for you tonight." On the first day, about 40% of Soweto's work force stayed home...
...boss-ridden as they once were, but they are just as synthetic in an up-to-date show-biz way. Newsmen used to armor themselves against the hokum by reporting it in the cynically fond style of amused outrage made popular by H.L. Mencken. That tone is harder to sustain these days, and a good many reporters and editors are now asking whether they are covering conventions in the right...
...because he was banished for embezzling post office funds. After settling his family in Maryland, across the bay from Annapolis, he set himself up as a schoolmaster and died when Peale was only nine. Peale's mother moved her brood to Annapolis, where she did embroidery to sustain her five children and apprenticed Charles (the eldest) to a saddlemaker at the age of twelve. By 20, Peale had married and gone into debt to open his own saddlery. He also diversified into upholstery, harnessmaking and silversmithing...
...testimonial, "she cares enough to be brilliant." Hopefully she will weather the hyperbolic fuss over film critics (these are only movie reviews, after all) and get over her recent phase of open-mouthed raptures. Reeling brings together another thoroughly enjoyable and stimulating round of reviews, and hopefully Kael will sustain enough independence and determination to prod our thinking for a few more volumes worth of reviews...
...people who came away from the late sixties with a heightened concern with current issues is that many are having problems finding channels to utilize this concern. It's harder to be sure what is the right thing to do in different situations. You want to sustain certain personal values. Many people are trying to find a mix between their lives before Harvard and their lives after they entered Harvard," Goldsmith claimed...