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...explanation, Tutu and others cite various factors, secular and spiritual. Tribal religion lost power as Africans began to cross tribal lines. Islam might have filled this void, but the much anticipated Muslim surge, funded by new Arab oil wealth, has yet to materialize in black Africa. More important, most experts agree, is the record of the Christian missionaries. According to one theory, the past stereotype that missionaries were deeply disliked and distrusted stemmed from colonists, not from Africans. Today missionaries are sometimes seized upon as political scapegoats and expelled by new nationalist leaders. But Africans are still surprised and touched...
...ambiguous? Everything and nothing makes sense. His characters are not only waiting for Godot, they are waiting for waiting, preoccupied with the lack of activity. Estragon cries out in an exasperated voice: "I don't know why I don't know!" and the hollowness of his confession typifies the void the playwright strives to create...
...second and third periods, New York notched four straight goals and deposited the Bruins in the void of elimination. Now the Bruins can rest until next season, and the Islanders, by virtue of their 4-2 victory last night at Boston Garden, advance to the NHL semifinals after capturing the best-of-seven quarterfinals, four games...
...Radcliffe were founded in and continue to project a white European image and value system. Today, although many of us find worth in participating in mainstream institutions, we typically discover these institutions to be Eurocentric, insensitive to our cultural backgrounds, irrelevant to our interests, unsympathethic to our needs, and void of an understanding of and interest in our histories-in short, historically and currently alien and alienating...
...feathers laundered. But Morgan's Passing develops an ugly side. Morgan's family realizes that their actions have no basis in reason. They give up trying to influence or even approach one another. The family, and by Tyler's analogy, all human beings, withdraw into hollow conversation, a Chekhovian void where people talk over each other's shoulders and pay less attention to their friends than to their furniture...