Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ross Johannesburg, South Africa...
...bitters at the Zambesi Club bar in London, the hearty-mannered young men in open-necked sports shirts spend most of their time carefully scanning the help-wanted ads. Right now there are few openings for their specialized skills. But they are sure that somewhere soon, most likely in Africa or the Middle East, they will find a fight that they will be paid to join. They are mercenary soldiers, members of a dwindling fraternity of adventurers who lay their lives on the line for money...
...year he was awarded an Emmy for the best children's program, Jack and the Beanstalk, in which he danced with animated characters, a technique he helped pioneer in Anchors Aweigh in 1945. Between times, he emceed the 1965 Arts Festival at the White House and toured West Africa as a cultural ambassador for the State Department...
Love & Art. For his terrifying, black penetration of the heart, Paul Bowles commands cold admiration. Living in Africa, corresponding with America in a kind of code, he uses the same metaphors of loneliness and abandon that signaled his leap from music to the novel with The Sheltering Sky in 1949. His work is art, a minor art, mirroring a part truth-that man is alone. The other part of the truth is that man has the power to break out of his loneliness through two forces: love and art. Bowles knows the second, not the first...
Kafka country? No, contemporary Africa, where injustice and revenge are concrete forces, not metaphors for alienated modern man. The book is set in a village hovering on the brink of civilization, and the topsy-turvy quality of its life is caught so expertly by the author that terrifying and absurd events come to seem fully logical. Studding the story are keenly observed individual portraits, among them a witch doctor frantically clinging to a waning authority and a self-important chieftain who | wears European khakis under his tribal robes...