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...instance, than between Munich and Florence. "I was in Florence yesterday," he said, "and I really had the feeling of being on another continent." If ever there is to be a common culture for Europe, he believes that it will be the result of cross-fertilization from the Anglo-American orbit-not so much in art or literature as in lifestyles. "These influences range from the habit, new to Europe, of calling people by their first names, to the social influence of radio and TV shows, to the way that fashions develop outside traditional centers in Europe...
...statement Nwafor disagreed with the Review Committee's assertion that "Afro-American are neither African nor Anglo-American" and that "the unique character of the Afro-American experience may be found in its essential dissimilarity to that of these two groups...
...said that "one could equally state--more correctly even if as one sidedly--that the Afro-American is both African and Anglo-American." He said that the man whom the research institute is named after. W.F.B. DuBois, recognized "the two-ness of the Afro-American...
...merely the academic indulgence of an over-refined dialectical mind that leads one into stating that in reality the Afro-American is fully captured only when it is seen that he is at once both African and Anglo-American at the same time as he is equally neither African nor Anglo-American," he said. "This purview alone succeeds in defining the Afro-American in his uniqueness...
...also the most mesmeric anti-hero to grip the Anglo-American stage since Bill Maitland in John Osborne's Inadmissible Evidence. The irony is that such anti-heroes require heroic performances from the actors who play them. Nicol Williamson erupted volcanically in Inadmissible, and Alan Bates (TIME, Nov. 6) is a flood tide of brilliance in Butley. The two plays and the two characters have a good deal in common. One feels that if Maitland and Butley could harness their energy and alter the direction of their venomous wit, they could put their lives straight in no time...