Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Here is a person who is serious,' " Pearl says. "Once I show them my dignified side, I can be as wild as I feel." When she got down to the "strength" and "fertility" dances, her thrusting, thumping power, matched to the savage beat of a hand-patted African drum, was wild enough to stand the customer's hair on end. It was all certified genuine: "Everything I do is consistent with what I saw in Africa - except for wearing a bra. I have to make that concession to our modern standards...
...German recalls how his father came home from the World War I battlefront to find the mother having an affair with another man; the figures move and blur in the depths of his memory like shapes under water. Two Men is a stark outline of boredom on a lonely African station; the climax is a blood spree that is somehow more ghastly because its victims are not people, but ducks, geese and flamingos...
London reporters jumped at the chance to interview Hollywood Director John Huston, his stars Humphrey Bogart (with wife Lauren Bacall "going along for the ride") and Katharine Hepburn, all on their way to Tanganyika to film C. S. Forester's The African Queen. As the crowd met for noon cocktails and questions, Miss Hepburn jumped at the chance to get off some inside comments (which saw solemn print next day). Dressed in an oatmeal-colored slack suit and flat brown shoes, easily stealing the scene from Mrs. Bogart who wore only a black & white Paris suit, she burbled...
...watch Manilal Gandhi, 58-year-old son of the late Mahatma, sip a glass of lemon juice, honey and hot water, to break his 14-day fast held in protest over South Africa's segregation laws. Gandhi, 20 Ibs. lighter, announced that he would ask the South African government once again to change its laws, before breaking one of the laws himself as a further protest...
...father began his political career in 1894, when he became lawyer for a group of Indians protesting against unfair treatment by the South African government. The elder Gandhi, however, did not develop the fast (or hunger strike) as a publicity and political tenchnique until 1918, after he had returned to India. No prominent Indian has gone on a hunger strike since Gandhi's last fast...