Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Parliament opened, Pinay met with his cabinet, and beat the opposition to the first move. He issued a truculent statement that France would stand no "interference," by the U.N. or anybody else, in her troubled North African affairs (see below). The motion for an immediate debate on foreign policy was defeated, 394-223. But Pinay's biggest triumph was still to come...
Described, not unkindly, as "a Bolivian concept of a Swiss federation adapted to an African absolute monarchy," the partnership of Ethiopia and Eritrea should have practical advantages. Landlocked Ethiopia has the resources of soil and climate to become East Africa's breadbasket. Eritrea has better-trained labor and coastal ports on the Red Sea. The federation's success, said departing Commissioner Anze Matienzo pointedly, depends on Ethiopia's "respect for Eritrea's constitutional progress and autonomy...
...Lesbian, too neurotically selfish for anything but a perverted counterfeit of love. But to the innocent eyes of Hélene, Tamara's brusque, boyish charm, her low voice "rough as a cat's tongue," her disordered flat, a jungle den of cigarette smoke and weird African masks, has all the magnetic pull of an adolescent daydream come true...
Fado singing seems to have started as the bitter balladry of 18th century Portuguese convicts on their way to forced labor and exile in Portugal's African colonies. Amalia's fado is more sentimental. It differs, too, from the singing of other Portuguese fadistas, just as Bessie Smith's blues differ from Pearl Bailey's. Amalia, who is steeped in her country's Moorish musical tradition, alternates a passionate, reedy wail with a tone of warm caress. She thinks that Rosemary Clooney's current song, Half as Much, is the closest thing...
...acting honors are easily captured by a herd of hippopotami plunging like dolphins in an African river, and by a Hollywood hyena whose night prowling about the camp has a superbly eerie quality. Among the Hollywood cast, Ava Gardner is surprisingly effective in the early scenes in Paris. Screen Writer Casey Robinson describes the script as "one-third Hemingway, one-third Zanuck and one-third myself"-a dilution of talent that probably accounts for the pat, happy ending, the atmosphere of whining self-pity, and the resolute backing away from any issues except sugar-coated love...