Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today the Transkei is anything but independent. The South African government furnishes most of its civil servants and most of its budget. It is virtually without industry, its soil is eroded and impoverished, its roads little more than tracks for the oxcarts that travel them. Its women wear blankets redder than the dusty earth, its old men sit on the ground in front of their huts smoking long-stemmed pipes. And its young men leave as soon as they can to seek work in the white cities...
...gift of the white boss," says Ephraim Tchabalata, who has grown rich on a chain of dry-cleaning establishments and filling stations. The streets of the cities echo with the laughter of Africans, and the townships rock to the Beatle beat of guitars, strummed by young men wearing the cowboy hats that have become the latest rage. But all too often the smiles hide resentment. Says one African: "If I walk in the streets of Johannesburg and a white man kicks me, I will grin and say, 'Baas, you would have made a great soccer player.' But there...
Unlike many nudist colonies, which wall themselves in like monasteries, forbid liquor and anything that smacks of bodily contact, San Gregorio is considered a "free beach," i.e. where bathers are free to wear or doff what they please. One flamboyant japer paraded around on his first day wearing bright red knee-length socks and nothing else. "Here there are no boundaries, no police, no rules," said University of California Coed Nancy Harris. "Nobody bugs...
Anthropologist C. Loring Brace waded in with the observation that humans who now wear the least clothing have the least hair on their bodies; those who wear the most have the greatest amount of hair. Brace believes that man lost his hair by hunting in the noon heat of tropical days; natural selection favored the relatively hairless hunters, whose bodies were best equipped to dissipate heat. This happened more than half a million years ago, says Brace, or roughly 400,000 years before man developed clothing...
...Inescapably, she frets constantly about herself. She admits that her private world is too small. She knows from nothing about Viet Nam or black power. About all she reads regularly are her own reviews and (since she made the best-dressed list) pertinent clips culled from Women's Wear Daily...