Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great thing about Gordimers fiction has always been her success in stripping away the layers of pretense and denial and dishonesty that are built up around contemporary lives and societies. She shows the reader universal truths that are nonetheless elusive: her talent is to unveil revelation. In the nonfiction in this volume, it is Gordimers practice to reveal truths that are painfully obvious to most anybody. The subtitle of the volume is Notes from Our Century, and Gordimer makes a case study of historical progress out of her native South Africa, taking us from the world of apartheid through redemption...
...tried it the other day when our Indian aunt exclaimed during a football game, What? Whats going on? Didnt that just happen? We tried to explain it, but I realized how impossible it is. She ended the conversation once it started getting hostile: No, no. The same thing doesnt happen twice in India...
...only thing it hasn't done in the last 12 days...
...audience with a smile plastered on its face, humming the tunes and tapping its feet as it boisterously exits the theater. And let's not forget that well-deserved standing ovation. The final scene seems as if it will go on endlessly (this time, it's a good thing), as the stage is occupied by the entire company, seemingly floating on air as they tap, jump and sing...
...came to the Fort Jackson Community Center for a Bob-Hope style troop show. Those who came got a bellyful of junk food and a lineup bristling with both has-beens (Honky Tonk Man, Doink the Clown, the latest incarnation of The Patriot, if you follow that sort of thing) and never-will...