Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THABO MBEKI New South African Prez puts Zulu rivals in Cabinet. Almost as saintly as predecessor...
They are the great romantics of the black tradition: what Ellington played, Bearden painted; what Bearden painted and Ellington played, Ellison put into words. Together their work expressed the belief that the ultimate source of a sublime African-American art was to be found in the vernacular--the myths and folktales, the language games such as the dozens and signifying, and the sorrow songs and blues out of which each fashioned a sophisticated jazz idiom. And most audaciously of all, each believed the fundamental structuring principle of Negro art--improvisation--was also the essence of American democracy. The ultimate Americans...
...pages; $25), Ralph Ellison's long-awaited second novel, almost 50 years in the making, would be published in 1999, the centennial year of Duke Ellington's birth. For Ellington and Ellison, along with the painter Romare Bearden, were practitioners of a shared aesthetic, three titans of an African-American modernism, embodying in their work elegance, eloquence and elan...
Harvard officials didn't make an exception for South African Leader Nelson R. Mandela and they didn't make an exception for Louise Bourgeois either...
Cole, the first female African-American president of Spelman University, heralded Wilson as "a wonderful sister president" and praised Radcliffe's new incarnation...