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...clear message which the entire Watergate episode telegraphs to the Third World, particularly Africa, is the heartening reassurance that the processes of democracy do function; that the system of checks and balances does work effectively. JOHN J. AKAR Visiting Professor of African Culture Morehouse College Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 4, 1973 | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

...annual Festival of Two Worlds had just opened in Spoleto, and police were threatening to ban performances of the bare-breasted Sierra Leone dance troupe unless they covered "the rose of the nipple." "I don't know how to cover only the nipple," sighed Dance Director John J. Akar. He did his best with scarves and plastic roses, but the scarves fell and the petals peeled. At week's end, Akar was ready to try adhesive disks, but Menotti made his stand: "The Vatican may have fig-leafed Michelangelo, but I refuse to brassière Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 8, 1966 | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

...Visszaterve tehat kundulasi pontunkra, csak azt tartjuk halas es sikerrel biztato eljarasnak, mely eszmeivel nem brillirozni akar, hanem a letezo viszonyokat osmerve es szamba veve, azok javitasan faradozik." Which is to say an extreme frigidity generally prevails...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 1/9/1882 | See Source »

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