Word: african
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South African society demands relevance from its writers with a particular urgency, Gordimer says. "The writer is told you have a role in society. You have to serve--you must put yourself at the service of the struggle...
...credentials of what we could call in the United States a card-carrying liberal. You are the son of a minister and a graduate of Oxford University. I understand that you have maintained your academic interest through the Rand Afrikaans University, and as a faculty member of the South African Academy of Arts and Sciences. Yet you find yourself a member of the same party as Dr. Treurnicht. Is this an anomaly? A: No, I don't think it's an anomaly. I've been in parliament now for 18 years. I've been interested in politics all my life...
...does the South African government find censorship such a necessary part of its political existence...
South Africa's 20 million blacks, meanwhile, are more skeptical than grateful. They believe the reforms would still all far short of the full equality they want. Scoffs Bishop Desmond Tutu, secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches: "All this amounts to is shifting furniture around, but leaving the room just the same...
NONFICTION: African Calliope, Edward Hoagland -Onward and Upward in the Garden, Katharine S. White - The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff -The Intricate Music, Thomas Kiernan - The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas -The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe -The White Album, Joan Didion