Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARQUARD DE VILLIERS, M.D. Pretoria, South Africa...
...Germany, who wrote that George is hochbegabt, highly gifted, very fine praise indeed. I have seen this letter and one from Richter, the pianist, saying how much he enjoyed performing with George. Once the Emperor of Ethiopia come to Berlin and admired Geogre's work and invited him to Africa to organize a symphony orchestra there. George went and has pictures to show...
...only ugly things in my life have to do with America and women, he said to me one time. What is a little surprising is that he likes black women too. Many American Negroes in Europe will not touch a black women, even though there are girls from Africa who are greatly desired by the whites. They, the expatriate Negroes, have managed an awesome act of reduction by which they may avenge themselves and their race on the Western world. George dismembered history too, but in a way of his own devising...
...North Carolina the forces burned and suffocated him at the same time like a poisonous gas. He was in Dusseldorf after the war when you could stand at the train station and look ten miles in any direction and in Africa to see tribalism, nationalism, them, us slither into the fetid soil. Then his career in music was wrecked, and he watched that too, proud of his talent, his mission to music but still shy and afraid to stand too close to a white...
Almost 10% of the wildlife on the tiny raised atoll of Aldabra, 400 miles east of Africa, can be found nowhere else on earth. Owing to its isolation, Al-dabra's ecosystem has remained unique. Soaring with 7-ft. wingspreads at altitudes of more than half a mile, hundreds of thousands of frigate birds, which use Aldabra as their major Indian Ocean nesting site, blot out the rays of the sun. Thousands of rare giant land tortoises, some 4-ft. across and weighing as much as 600 Ibs., creep across the pitted coral and ridged limestone surface...