Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overworked English shrew driving her husband into the arms of another woman but wanting him back at any cost. Sometimes the habit becomes just plain infidelity, as in Getting Off the Altitude. In A Mild Attack of Locusts, the habit turns into love of the land, even when the African locusts make the land a crushing burden. A female leftist in The Day Stalin Died has the party habit so bad that Stalin's death inspires her to intone: "We will have to pledge ourselves to be worthy...
CLIMBING aboard an Egyptian Misrair Viking at Tunis airport early this week, I found, by luck, a vacant seat next to Krim. He was returning to Cairo from the Conference of North African Arabs and, after an initial coolness ("I took you for a Frenchman"), he dropped his natural wariness of strangers and began to talk. Once started, he talked so steadily and passionately that he left his breakfast of omelet and chicken untouched. Time and again, as he tried to explain and justify the terrible momentum of the nationalist rebellion in which he was caught up, the same word...
...winning design came from the drawing board of 55-year-old David Boyd, a Scotsman whose principal earlier success was the six-meter Circe, which in 1938 beat all comers in the international matches. Sceptre's African mahogany planking, her steel and oak frames and her 20-ton keel were skillfully transformed into a racing yacht under such rigid security that outsiders are still uncertain about all her essential statistics. But her 44 ft. on the waterline come close to the dimensions of all the cup defenders; so does her 12-ft. beam and her 70 ft. of overall...
When Dr. Stuckert has constructed his table for each census year, he reaches the conclusion that of 135 million Americans classified as white in 1950, about 28 million (21%) had some African ancestry. Of the 15 million classified as Negro, slightly more than 4,000,000 (27%) were of pure African descent. During 1941-50, he estimates, about 155,000 Negroes moved into the white category...
...Stuckert's estimates can be attacked in detail, but sociology offers little comfort to white Americans who try to maintain that a single African ancestor, however remote, makes a man Negro. About 60 generations have passed since the heyday of the Roman Empire; so an American of European ancestry is descended from 2 60 (1,152,921,504,606,846,976) ancestors at the time of the Emperor Hadrian. This immense figure is not to be taken literally, but it surely means that people with ancestors who lived in the Roman Empire, including England and part of Germany...