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...Africa, however, he said, the word "nationalism" has been stretched to cover new meanings. It is, he went on, "an amalgam of three ingredients: loyalty to a race, loyalty to a culture, and a passionate distrust of foreign influence in any form...
...solution was to call a special meeting of the Organization for African Unity. This fledgling Pan-African grouping of 33 states was created last May at Addis Ababa, where Emperor Haile Selassie sponsored the latest moves toward continental unity. The O.A.U. is an amalgam of two earlier unity attempts that had failed (the Casablanca Pact and the Monrovia Group), and with its insistence on African solutions to African problems, it listened with sympathy to Nyerere's story, effectively absolved him of his sin. Shaken but still alive, Julius Nyerere set out to rebuild his army and his popularity...
SALUTE TO DENMARK-Lefebre, 47 East 77th. Steering a course through folklore, these modern Danes find a fresh amalgam of fantasy and feeling, aptly tagged "abstractions which are living fables." Carl-Henning Pedersen. Asger Torn. Eljer Bille, Henry Heerup, Mogens Balle. Egill Jacobsen and Preben Wölck, most for the first time in the U.S. Through March...
Their task was complicated by the fact that among New Guinea's 2,000,000 people, nearly 750 different languages are spoken. The lingua franca is pidgin - an amalgam of missionary English, Malay, and local dialects...
Luckily, Kubrick has found actors who can inject significance, even tragedy, into the brash, punnish script. Chomping ceaselessly on a frayed cigar butt, Sterling Hayden's General Ripper represents a curious amalgam of William Holden and Groucho Marx. Yet, the character deepens magnificently, if momentarily, when Hayden stares shakily into the camera and wimpers his resolve to "keep my bodily fluids safe from women and the Reds." Somehow there is more than foolishness here. When the general stalks awkwardly into the washroom to shoot himself, a surge of pity undercuts the laughter. Hayden has almost created a Quixote; the nature...