Word: sectionalism
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Late in the war, two B-17 bombers collided over Belgium at 13,500 ft., and one of them was sheared in two. From the main section, one crewman succeeded in bailing out, but the rest crashed to their deaths. In the tail, Joe Frank Jones Jr., a 19-year-old gunner, tried to get out the escape hatch, found it jammed. He tried the window, but it was too small. He was trapped inside the plunging fragment. When Belgian peasants found him lying in a field, still alive, they took him to a hospital. There he lay unconscious...
Such tragedies should now be a thing of the past. South Africa's government last week proposed the repeal of the Mixed Marriages Act and Section 16 of the Immorality Act, laws that are generally interpreted as prohibiting marriage, cohabitation and sexual intercourse between whites and nonwhites. In reality, the move will not have a widespread effect: most authorities have long turned a blind eye to the country's few hundred mixed-race relationships. But the toppling of two of the pillars of apartheid seemed at the very least to prepare the way for further and more significant reforms...
...mythical warrior hero whose undoing came not in battle but in love. No matter. Taylor, though an astutely musical choreographer, has never cared much about the public history of the scores he picks. The Siegfried Idyll is the erotic pulse that the ballet moves to. In the long first section, five couples proclaim their love with both passion and a delicate concern for each other that is ineffably moving. The music changes to the Adagio for Clarinet and Strings, a brief, little-known chamber composition, also by Wagner. The couples recline at the rear of the stage, the women cradled...
Students need to get out of their rooms (and I’m not talking about going to that section you’ve been skipping for three weeks). I mean throwing a frisbee, playing intramurals, or if you absolutely can’t get away from your studies, reading by the river. Your cramped single is a social prison (especially if you live in Mather...
Students need to get out of their rooms (and I’m not talking about going to that section you’ve been skipping for three weeks). I mean throwing a frisbee, playing intramurals, or if you absolutely can’t get away from your studies, reading by the river. Your cramped single is a social prison (especially if you live in Mather...