Word: african
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about destitute, he offered to turn over the income of his oil-spouting lands. It was a handsome gift -somewhere between $5,000,000 and $50 million-but it was tied with tawdry strings. To qualify for it, the school was to pledge itself to exclude "any person of African or Asiatic origin." It must promise to teach "through every medium possible . . . Christianity and the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon and Latin American races." Jewish students would be banned, added an Armstrong spokesman, unless converted to Christianity. To nail it all down, old Judge Armstrong demanded a new five...
Lost In the Stars (words by Maxwell Anderson; music by Kurt Weill; produced by the Playwrights' Company) refashions Alan Paton's moving story of South African race relations, Cry, the Beloved Country, into a kind of choral drama. It tells of an old Negro's search for his errant son, who has killed a great white champion of the Negro race, of the boy's repentance and death, and of the symbolic coming-together of the two stricken fathers...
Lost in the Stars, as many of you may know, is based on Cry, the Beloved Country, the recent best-seller about white-Negro tension in South Africa. The TIME account was of a touring exhibition of South African paintings and sculpture at the National Gallery in Washington. Conspicuous in the show, said TIME'S Editors, were the vivid works of G. Sekoto, the only Negro artist included, who had taught himself to paint in Johannesburg, then left his native land to study in Paris, only to find poverty and despair, to attempt suicide and to be committed...
Savage Splendor (RKO Radio) is a magnificent Technicolored record of an African safari, filmed by Armand Denis (who eleven years ago produced Dark Rapture) and Lewis Cotlow. To make it, the Denis-Cotlow expedition traveled some 22,000 miles back & forth across
Africa, visited half a dozen native tribes, tussled with scores of exotic birds & beasts. Their bag was some of the most beautiful views of African jungles, uplands and river courses that have ever been caught by a camera...