Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...youth camps, lust is as deadly as exhaustion. Young men and women can be executed merely for talking to one another or sitting together. The only opportunity to find a mate is in the fields. When a likely spouse appears, an elderly emissary inquires about his or her availability; if both the boy and the girl are willing, the cooperative's controller is asked to sanction marriage. Says Bousa Voen, 22, a refugee at Surin, in broken but poignant English: "I never talked to my husband before we marry. He just know I beautiful and want to make love...
Although the parade included the customary representatives of youth organizations, sports groups, factories and ordinary citizens, the centerpiece was Ustinov's military show. Along with the sight of thousands of troops marching to the music of 750 massed musicians, the audience, which included military attaches of Western embassies, was treated to the first public display of the Red Army's formidable new T-72 tank. Trailing a heavy blue cloud of exhaust fumes, 46 of the diesel-powered 40-ton machines roared through Red Square. One Western government observer's assessment: "A very businesslike-looking weapon." Already...
...fundamentalist form of Calvinism) and a sense of special mission created by their hard history. Even in the large cities, Afrikaners tend to mix uneasily with English-speaking whites. In the country, they are a law and a people unto themselves. The family structure is strong and disciplined; Afrikaner youth are far less likely than their Anglo counterparts to smoke or drink. Sunday is the Lord's day; sports, cinema and TV are forsworn for lengthy sermons of a dominee at the local church. The Afrikaner can, and usually does, treat his black workers with kindness. Yet there is never...
That is simply ludicrous. More believably-indeed, touchingly-the two older women are granted, through the girl, the opportunity to come to terms with some unresolved issues. Bancroft, a would-be mentor, must fight through her resentment of youth and that freshness of talent for which no amount of hard-won skill can totally compensate. As for MacLaine, she comes to see that she cannot live through her daughter the life she did not choose. Both get a chance to work out their previously unspoken grudges, on the night of the girl's première, in a knockdown...
...person--all of which the rape defied. In her political discussions Val had avoided saying "the system." But in the case of the rape there was no sidestepping the word. The system was men, and the system was guilty--cops, doctors, attorneys, as well as the black youth who pled guilty and the judge who sentenced him to six months for battery. Val recalled her liberal sympathy for the black boys in the line up and realized she'd never feel it again...