Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only one American, winner of the prize for literature, did not show up: Author Ernest Hemingway (TIME, Dec. 13) remained in Cuba, nursing the aches and breaks he got early this year in two African plane crashes. But Papa had sent a stirring message, which was read for him by the U.S. Ambassador to Sweden. After apologizing for "having no facility for speech-making and no command of oratory nor any domination of rhetoric...
...FIRE-RAISERS, by Marris Murray, was one of the best entries in the year's huge literary safari to Africa. It was a merciless diagnosis of what its South African author calls "Africa sick ness," the complex of racial snobbery, fear and prejudice which has poisoned the lives of her white characters...
...have feared, the bushy-haired intruder in the Sheppard home that July night, and his red clothes don't early have anything to do with those Red Chinese you worry about sometimes. Nor was he the one who forced Hemingway's plane down in the African jungles, disguised as some sort of silly bird...
...retired behind a clipped, white, patriarchal beard that gave him a bristled, Neptunian look. His leg muscles could have been halves of a split 16-lb. shot, welded there by years of tramping in Michigan, skiing in Switzerland, bullfighting in Spain, walking battlefronts and hiking uncounted miles of African safari. On his lap he held a board, and he bent over it with a pencil in one hand. He was still whittling away at his walnut prose...
Hemingway's African injuries were a ruptured kidney, bad burns, cracked skull, two compressed vertebrae and one vertebra cracked clear through. These were added to scars that cover perhaps half his body surface, including half a dozen head wounds, 237 shrapnel scars in one leg, a shot-off kneecap, wounds in both feet, both arms, both hands and groin, all acquired in the two World Wars. By last week he was much improved, but his back was still bothering him. When he sat, he lined his chair with big flat picture books and a backboard. "I have to take...