Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who sit in their rooms fingering the pages of Hemingway and looking wistfully at the blank spaces in the Atlas, The African Lion will be sheer delight. In about an hour of colored photographs, Walt Disney's newest live animal film presents a truly remarkable sequence of scenes involving the wildlife of the African plains. The achievement of the film is not only one of photographic excellence, but of sheer persistence...
...greatest achievement of African Lion was in its making, the film's greatest fascination lies in its cast. The lion, the leopard, and the cheetah roam, play, and kill among giant herds of wildebeest, impala, and zebra. Stalking, killing, and the division of the spoils take place seemingly within feet of the camera. Then too, there are elephants, baboons, and hippos, scavengers and clowns. The immediacy of these photographs is so consistently startling that it soon becomes truly difficult to believe one's eyes. And yet they must be believed...
...Haut-Rhin, from the Pas-de-Calais to the Bouches-du-Rhone, voters had good reason to think of Algeria: many of their sons and husbands are there. Unlike the war in Indo-China, where only volunteers were sent (many of them Germans in the Foreign Legion, or African Negroes), the police action in Algeria has been largely waged by French conscripts-reservists called back to the service, and draftees held overtime...
Combat Record. A native of East Afri ca, the Gonaxis has a distinguished battle record against the giant African snail in the islands of the Pacific. On Agiguan in the Marianas, the Gonaxis destroyed within two years nearly a million of the 5,000,000 African snails whose ancestors were brought in as emergency food by the Japanese during World War II. When Clausen heard that 5,000 Gonaxis snails had been rounded up on Agiguan for anti-pest assignments on other islands, he put in a bid for a consignment of 200. Currently being fed on a diet...
...African Giant, by Stuart Cloete, was a profound and troubled attempt to search out the deeper sources of Africa's troubles. Having briefly hopped Inside Africa, John Gunther came out with a bestselling, massive catch-all that was short on analysis but gave his usual breezy impression of having exhausted his subject...