Word: bubi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Madrid, Fernando Poo boasts bountiful harvests of coffee, bananas and cocoa. It has a model road system, one of Africa's highest rates of primary school attendance (89%) and per capita income ($246)-and probably its biggest leisure class. When the Spanish government gave the island's Bubi tribesmen their own farms, many of the placid, easygoing natives simply leased the land to Spanish and Portuguese settlers, then sat back and began taking in income. The settlers, in turn, imported Nigerian laborers, who now make up two-thirds of Fernando Poo's 60,000 population. Other mainlanders...
...JEWISH MOTHER culls some of the feebler witticisms from Dan Greenburg's fitfully satiric guidebook and further dilutes them with a few primitive racial clichés. Veteran Comedienne Molly Picon clucks and coos authentically, but Bubi, her baby, is, of all people, hulking Negro Comic Godfrey Cambridge (brought in, he says, because "there aren't too many Negro theater parties"). Some things in the book did strike home; yet Seymour Vall's two-character revue is nothing but the schlock of recognition...
...JEWISH MOTHER culls some of the feebler witticisms from Dan Greenburg's fitfully satiric guidebook and further dilutes them with a few primitive racial clichés. Veteran Comedienne Molly Picon clucks and coos authentically, but Bubi, her baby, is, of all people, hulking Negro Comic Godfrey Cambridge wearing little-boy clothes (brought in, he says, because "there aren't too many Negro theater parties"). Some things in the book did strike home, yet Seymour Vall's two-character revue is nothing but the schlock of recognition...