Word: torchlit
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...late it has come to refer to the practice of running white Zimbabwean farmers, many of whom have been there for generations, off their land. Peter Godwin, a white Zimbabwean, has observed quite a bit of jambanja at uncomfortably close quarters, and he has meticulously recorded his outraged, torchlit impressions in this remarkable memoir: the harassment, the chanting mobs, the beating of the elderly, the pointless destruction of food-bearing land, all the smashed crockery of a peaceful, genteel microculture destroyed by greed and ignorance with the blessing of Zimbabwe's monstrous President Robert Mugabe...
...reference to standards encrusted in the blood of retreating foreigners -- an image, ironically, that members of the ultra-right National Front must actually find quite appealing. But less ideological traditionalists are now rallying against the Milquetoast meddlers, denouncing the notion of tampering with the song that rang through the torchlit streets of revolutionary France as nothing short of traitorous. Sure, the Marseillaise "is ridiculous," concedes novelist Michel Tournier, "but we should leave it alone because, like old furniture, it gains in value over the years...
Perhaps for the alumni of the torchlit march, little has changed. But for other undergraduates--those who no longer protest--enough has. Divestiture is still a dream--President Bok frequently says that the University can help South Africa more by remaining a shareholder and voicing its concern through resolutions. But the ACSR now acts as a moderate influence--and it may eventually temper the Corporation...
...torchlit march may seem like ancient history to underclassmen, and its chant, "the struggle continues," has faded. But even now, some seniors says they can still hear it echoing through the Yard...
...torchlit march may seem like ancient history to underclassmen, and its chant, "the struggle continues," has faded. But even now, some seniors says they can still hear it echoing through the Yard...