Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tommie Smith and John Carlos making their demonstration for Black Power. Winning the gold and bronze medals were great personal achievements, and I am sure that any Negroes watching were proud. But was it necessary to degrade the otherwise moving ceremonies? I think there are many South African Negroes who could tell these men things that would make them appreciate their freedom-yes, freedom! I think that Smith and Carlos are only hurting the cause they hold closest to their hearts by alienating white Americans and giving people like George Wallace a chance to say, "See what I mean...
...Salaam's sprawling Kariakoo market, a screaming mob halted buses and dragged off African girls wearing tight dresses or miniskirts. The girls were beaten and some had their clothes ripped off. With fine impartiality, the mob also beat up youths wearing tight-fitting satiny pants. It was "cultural revolution," African style...
...foolish to wear clothes that show legs," he declared last week. "It would be better for people to go unclothed if their intention is to expose their legs." The Youth League has also called for a ban, as of Jan. 1, on everything symbolizing the "cultural enslavement of the African." Besides miniskirts, the ban includes wigs, tight pants for men or women, and chemicals used to bleach skins and "dehumanize the African people." Hair-straightening devices, lipsticks and other cosmetics have already been condemned. Beauty contests, the "exploitation of female flesh," are taboo. Green-guard girls wear thick skirts well...
...month upward. But payday is at best a sporadic affair in besieged Biafra. In any case, money is probably not the major reason for their presence. It is not the land, either, for they seem to have no eyes for the green rolling infinity of the African bush, the visionary sunsets, the humming, warm, smoky nights. They are lobos, outcasts from society who fight every day in order to taste the excitement that comes in living close to violent death. If they survive Biafra, they will doubtless drift on in search of another war. Until then, their allegiance, temporary though...
Larry Bryggman as Delano and Arthur Merrow as his bosun Perkins seldom seem comfortable with Lowell's highly stylized language, and make unfortunate attempts to naturalize it--leaving it stilted and often absurd. The blacks--played by about 15 members of Boston's New African Company -- are effective when overtly menacing, but otherwise confused and distracting, never successfully realizing the foreboding eerie simplicity of a Greek chorus...