Word: afro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States can, by giving up its delaying action against Red China and accepting universality, do much to regain the prestige it has lost. Especially among the numerous small Afro-Asian nations, who now control the bulk of voting strength in the General Assembly, last week's actions of the big powers, throwing vetos at each other to keep various applicants out, evoked little sympathy. Since the veto-less Assembly has now assumed authority over all important UN decisions except membership, and since the U.S. has repudiated its stand against new members, Washington has little to lose by asking...
...lengthened. It's only trying to make $20 million that cuts short a man's years. Spending it would be healthy." After some five years away from Broadway, Chicago-born Dancer Katherine Dunham, 45, who elevated burlesque's bumps and grinds to highbrow respecta bility as Afro-Caribbean choreography, returned with her troupe to Manhattan, drew regrets from encore-cheering audi ences that her revue is booked for only a four-week...
...past three years, is down to 49,000 in a city of 700,000 Negroes. Its national edition has dropped to 37,000, about half its 1952 circulation. New York's Amsterdam News has dropped more than 25,000 from its 1947 peak of 62,770. The weekly Afro-American, which publishes 13 local and regional editions, including twice-weekly editions in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., has dropped from 230,000 to 188,000 in national circulation since World War II, may have to drop some of its editions, e.g., in New England, to concentrate on metropolitan areas with...
...something important is missing in most of today's art. Said former Louvre Curator René Huyghe: "Art today aims to shock. In effect the artist spits on the canvas, delivers a punch in the eye. I prefer fruit on a napkin." Italy's leading Abstract Painter Afro in part agreed: "There is too much concern with surface effects, an attempt to make them appear 'modern,' even if this means contempt for color. What is missing is a maturing process, a depth of spirituality." For Boston Museum of Fine Arts Director Perry Rathbone...
...spirit of General Assembly membership, therefore, should be that of listening to all proposals, no matter how unjust they may seem. If the French delegation desired to influence world opinion as to the injustice of discussing the Algerian question, they accomplished little. Having voted to hear the Afro-Asian complaint, the UN members will do so in spite of France's absence...