Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Lawrence Litchfield Jr., 67, past chairman of Alcoa aluminum; after a stroke; in Philadelphia. During a 40-year career with the nation's largest aluminum producer, he tramped African jungles, struck oil in Texas and saw sales top $1 billion...
...another article to apear in the Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs of the Association of African and Afro-American Students, Kilson called the demands of Black Power leaders for a separate Negro state an expression of "a politically bizarre black radical infantilism...
Israel acknowledged that he was not a regularly enrolled undergraduate, but said he was waiting to take generals in African History and a French examination before he could graduate...
What makes the final product so fresh and captivating is the skill with which Bearden employs his polyglot artistic heritage. His jigsaw Afro-American faces borrow their cubistic profiles from Picasso; yet, as Bearden says, Picasso in turn was inspired by African masks. Bearden also cadges tricks from Bosch, Brueghel and the neo-Dadaists, pasting a tiny sun in a woman's eye as she greets her returning juvenile-delinquent son (pun intended) in The Return of the Prodigal Son. All this intermingling has the effect of broadening his pictures from the specific into the universal. It takes...
Undaunted, the delegates proceeded to endorse the morality of contraception, despite strong minority opposition from lay Catholics representing African and Latin American countries. Citing the "anguishing" problem of a world population explosion, the resolution expressed the "very strong feeling among Christian lay people that there is a need for a clear stand by the teaching authorities of the church, which would focus on fundamental moral and spiritual values." That stand, said the laymen, should include "leaving the choice of scientific and technical means for achieving responsible parenthood to parents acting in accordance with their Christian faith and on the basis...