Word: african
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington heard rumbles of a misunderstanding between U.S. Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh and Dwight P. Griswold, administrator of the aid program in Athens, over U.S. methods in Greece. Off to Athens in a hurry went the State Department's able, vigorous Loy Henderson, chief of the Near Eastern and African Affairs office...
...months now Mr. Wilter, catering manager of the South African Railways, has searched in vain for Queen Elizabeth's galoshes. The Queen's dresser was absolutely sure she had put them in the record compartment of the royal radio gramophone. On the royal tour of South Africa the gramophone stood in the Queen's lounge on the train...
Dressed in spotless white satin, with a pink ribbon in her curly black hair, Margaret made her debut as a concert pianist last week in Chicago's Carey Temple (African Methodist Episcopal). She gave the audience a curtsy, saw that her doll Rosezarian was seated on a chair beside the grand piano, then clambered up on the bench and began a Bach minuet. After that and a selection from Mozart's Magic Flute, her teacher had to ask the audience to hold their applause until the first part of the recital was over. Altogether, Margaret played 14 pieces...
...dances to an accompaniment of pulsing drums. In one of her new works, Santo, a psychological study of the clash of Voodooism and Christianity in Cuba, fascinated students watched an exhibition of primitive, pantherlike power and grace. In The Shouters of Sobo, a work based on the traditions of African stonecutters, students got a lesson in gripping, concentrated intensity. With muscled shoulders hunched over bended knees, her powerful arms pounding, her whole body dynamically dramatic, everything about her was directed downward with terrible force...
...working for a Ph.D. at Columbia University. Says she: "What I try to express in my dancing is the culture of the Negro people. ... I am not preaching a 'back to Africa' movement. I am simply trying to show the Negro his African heritage and make him see that his culture had a dignity and strength and cleanliness. . . . I don't know yet what I have to say about my own life or place in my own land. But some day I hope to be able to say, 'This is my expression, this is what...