Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DURING a critical period in the present world adjustment, when he was held up at Knysna in the African summer of 1932, Shaw was inspired to break away from his ordinary business of playright to give the rank and file his views on modern religion...
Converted to Christianity by a female missionary, a young negress, armed only with her knobkerrie, the African black-jack, and the Bible, sets out through the jungle in search of God. She questions as she meets them: the God of Genesis; a stalwart Roman soldier; Christ himself; St. Peter; Mohammed; Voltaire, who is philosophizing among the jungle people; and finally the sage of Adelphi Terrace; but none give her a satisfactory answer. Christ, she finds "a good-natured fellow who smiled whenever he could" with a low opinion of women. When she found Voltaire digging in his little plot...
...producer). "The fear o' hell," wrote Bobby Burns, "is a hangman's whip." For 30 years, with whip and gun, Cockney Trader Prin (portly Montague Love, who muscles people around with his stomach) has put the fear o' hell into the natives living far up an African river. He has also broken most of the white assistants that have served under him for, as he says, "I ain't run this river plying tiddly-winks." But two of his helpers he does not quite break. One recovers his courage in time to run off with...
...abroad to study. Painter Hayden managed to make the $3,400 last him five years in France, was finally sent home penniless by the American Legion last autumn. The Harmon Foundation now gives him an occasional meal, provides him with canvas and paints. His winning composition shows an African head beside a heaping vase of spotted Argus orchids (Cypripedium). Such orchids cost about $2 per bloom. Artist Hayden painted them through the plate glass of a Fifth Avenue florist's window...
Coal-black, naked, a young African Negress converted to Christianity by a female missionary sets out through the jungle to look for God. She meets the God of Genesis, the God of Job, Ecclesiastes. Micah, Pavlov, a Roman soldier, Christ, St. Peter and a procession of churches, a caravan of intellectuals, Mohammed, an imagemaker, Voltaire, and finally Shaw. Naive but nobody's fool, the black girl questions everyone she meets but finds no satisfactory answers. The Gods of Genesis and Job enrage her and she attacks them with her knobkerry (that and a Bible are her only impedimenta). Christ...