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Despite the hostility directed at the country from abroad?and the anger burning from within???white South Africa remains curiously peaceful. The street tensions and stonings within its removed black townships?even the ongoing massive school boycott by 200,000 students in Soweto?fail to transmit more than a ripple to what Novelist Nadine Gordimer (A World of Strangers) calls the "dreadful calm" of white society. So distant do such events seem, in fact, that most whites only learn of them from their newspapers. Of Johannesburg's white population of 600,000, precious few have ever set foot in Soweto...
...shallow vault, then crashed shut. Feeling his way through Stygian passages for perhaps half a mile, he reached (he said) a large, lighted chamber whence six other tunnels burrowed further into the mountain. Commanding the chamber was a monster urn up which the curious Bedouin clambered to peer in. Within???yes, the veritable heaps of gems and gold of Ali Baba's "Open, Sesame" story. Knotting a clutch of treasure in his burnoose, he next chipped a crack in his prison's rose-red sandstone wall, widening it to a passage which brought him out high on the slope above...
JAPAN FROM WITHIN???J. Ingram Bryan-Stokes ($4.50). In a cold, factual, scholastic way, Dr. Bryan has given an admirable summary of the present conditions of Japan; and, by including historical background, he has clearly presented the remarkable progress made by that country. In a word, he makes the reader understand Japan but not the Japanese...
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