Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field of art. That field, as Art Editor Alexander Eliot interprets it, covers more than just painting. We have had, for example, stories on such subjects as the rediscovery of Roman mosaics, Navajo sand painting and modern architecture. There have also been reports on playground sculpture, park design, African carvings and U.S. folk...
Bender recently bounced out on the platform of Dayton's Wayman African Methodist Episcopal Church, beamed down on perhaps 75 persons, and said hoarsely: "Don't worry. I'm not going to sing." He read a couple of pages of his prepared text, stopped and asked: "You don't want to hear this, do you?" At best, the audience seemed indifferent, so Bender scrapped his script, began pacing around, pounding on the rostrum, on the walls and on a nearby piano. He talked extemporaneously, mostly about singing. Said Cleveland-born Bender: "We don't hold...
Colonel Scott, who told in his wartime bestseller, God Is My Co-Pilot, how he bagged Japanese planes now has spun an ingratiating yarn about how he bagged African big game. After dispatching the usual lion, leopard and elephant, Scott tracked Samburu, an almost legendary six-ton, ancient bull elephant that glides on noiseless, 28-inch footpads. Once, floundering out of a river, Hunter Scott suddenly came upon the huge-tusked giant and shouldered his rifle, only to find the sights waterclogged. By sliding back into the river, he sought to escape the shrieking charge. The monster, possibly distracted...
...varsity rugby team, bolstered by six English-trained players, began practicing this week. The six, a Welshman, a South African, and four Englishmen, figure to give the team a big boost in this year's four game schedule, according to Rob Albert, team captain...
After centuries, says Dr. Stern, most of the original African genes will be widely dispersed in the numerically dominant white population. Their incorporation will make no change except a slight darkening of the national skin. Eventually, there will be a few thousand black people in each generation, and they will probably have straight hair, thin lips and thin noses. "If some person now living," says Dr. Stern, "could return at that distant time, he would ask in wonder: 'What became of the Negro...