Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...applicants for immortality? Will mixed celestial orchestras twang their harps and so destroy in heaven all the good the intelligentsia of Klerksdorp have done on earth? We must not be captious. It is enough for the moment to know that one can see Klerksdorp, and die-like a white...
South Africa's white men have decreed that South Africa's black men must carry official permits to travel, to work or be absent from work, to walk the streets after 9 p.m., to have their wives live with them in "locations" (suburban areas, usually overcrowded shantytowns, set aside for natives). Some 75,000 blacks go to jail each year because they are without proper passes. A hangover from slavery days, the pass system is a major grievance of the black majority against the ruling white minority...
...Thirty white policemen soon arrived to disperse the pickets. The blacks retaliated by stoning white auto drivers on a nearby road. Prancing and chanting old tribal war songs, thousands of black men swept toward the location superintendent's office, set fire to a few buildings. Rioting continued into the night. Police and strikers exchanged gunshots. Three were killed, many others wounded...
This week Moscow's hordes of subway-riding white-collar workers and bureaucrats were full of stir as workmen put the finishing touches on a new subway line. It is the first segment of a Great Circle line that will intersect the present three spokelike crosstown lines (see map). When the Great Circle is completed, the center of Moscow will have a fine system: a passenger will be able to get from almost anywhere to almost anywhere in the city by changing trains only once...
...graduate of Serge Diaghilev's great Ballet Russe. It had a corps de ballet drilled down to the last pas de chat, an ensemble built on the theory that it is as important to have a well-coordinated team as a great star. To put on the great "white ballets"-the classics that England's Royal Opera House company has made its specialty-it had to have both. Says U.S. Choreographer George Balanchine: "When you dance in a short skirt, a tutu, you have to be very well trained, very precise. It's like a coloratura singing...