Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stage has been attained," concluded Mendes. "Now other stages present themselves." Mendès planned more deadlines. Within the next seven days he would demand "full powers" to make over France's backward economy. Within 14 days he expected to improve French relations with the embittered North African nationalists. His dynamism was unquestioned, and it had gained him the most notable French popularity since postliberation De Gaulle. Yet the cruel fact of this dynamism was that it had forced through an agreement that consecrated the delivery of 12 million Vietnamese to Communism, and that crippled the new state...
...Havana, white-bearded Author Ernest Hemingway strode into the public eye with his head cropped bald (so that scalp wounds he picked up in his famed African plane crash will heal more quickly), was officially decorated on his 55th birthday with the Order of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes-the highest honor Cuba can bestow upon a foreigner. Later Papa displayed the decoration for wife Mary and friend Jaime Bofill, launched on his 56th year in a warm and sentimental glow...
Last week a collection of Songo's sculptures in polished, grey-blue wonderstone (an African soapstone) was on tour in England with a show of African primitives by young students of the Anglican Church's Cyrene school, near Bulawayo in Southern Rhodesia. Among pictures of Biblical scenes, painted in colors as vivid as parrot feathers, and chiseled Christs with kinky hair, the hit of the show was Songo's Prodigal Son. The moving, 15-inch figures of the rich father and dissolute son, like all the Negro artist's carvings, seemed to have in miniature...
Natural Harmony. Even in the rural Midlands, where dowagers were somewhat affronted that the black artist should imagine Jesus as an African, discerning art-lovers were charmed by Sorgo's figures. One London critic thought that Songo might be leading a triumphant invasion of the Africans. And artists envied the harmony of spirit in his work. Said one: "If European artists manage to pull off this harmony, they reckon they're lucky. But with these boys it's natural...
...Lonely Ones. An education officer in Kenya described how the Communists are willing to reach halfway around the world to win their African converts. "Some of our Kenya young men have been sent to England for advanced study. But they have been lonely in London . . . Communist agents . . . are on the lookout for just such young men. They are very friendly. They invite them to tea and to evenings of discussion. The lonely students respond quickly . . . and before long they are well on their way to becoming full-fledged Communist agents...