Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British industrial plants, and lived in London with wife Connie, an ex-WAVE. McHale liked the easy informality at the Economist, which, like TIME, is a "first-name outfit." The English writers were always ready for a 20-minute chat on any subject, from the sad state of African groundnuts to the poor taste of American movies. Said he: "They speak with such conviction, fluency and lucidity, even when they are talking absolute tripe...
...surrealism could not satisfy Dominguez long. He oscillated between it and abstract art, produced cobwebby abstractions with surrealistic explanations. "Imagine any tridimensional body," he suggested, "an African lion, for instance. If we consider the whole formed by every point of the lion at every instant and in every position, and if we draw the enveloping surface, we obtain an enveloping super-lion with very delicately graded characteristics." His friends could never be sure whether or not Dominguez knew his theories were nonsense, but they could be sure he did not care. When asked to think out his conclusions, Dominguez amiably...
Judge Armstrong had tried to give his money away before. Two years ago, Mississippi's Jefferson Military College turned him down because he wanted the college to exclude students of "African and Asiatic origin" (TIME, Nov. 7, 1949). For Piedmont, there were no such strings, and President Walter saw nothing wrong with accepting $500 a month to help him balance his budget...
King Solomon's Mines. Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, and some excellent Technicolor shots of African animals and vistas (TIME...
King Solomon's Mines. The plot (with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger) is easy to see through, but the Technicolor shots of African animals and vistas are well worth looking at (TIME...