Word: congo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Belgium (with the aid of the Congo) and Luxembourg have $1 billion in their common gold and dollar kitty...
...African art evoked may be lonely as well as incomprehensible in Brooklyn, but they still weave powerful spells. It takes a dedicated collector to murmur, as one of the Brooklyn show's donors did last week: "These carvings are my friends." Brooklyn's Maternity Figure from the Congo can make a bronze by Henry Moore look limp-and comparatively friendly...
When John F. Carrington of the Baptist Missionary Society of London reached his new post in the Belgian Congo 14 years ago, one thing struck him especially: though there was neither telephone nor telegraph around, everyone in the village seemed to know exactly when he and his wife would arrive. The experience so impressed him that Carrington embarked on a second career of his own. Today he is the world's top white expert on the language of the Congo drums...
Last week TIME Correspondent Israel Shenker found Carrington at Yalemba, a jungle outpost in the Congo. There Carrington and his wife run a thriving mission school and are the guiding spirits of a community of some 500 natives. But John Carrington, 40, is now a missionary of another sort. Since only one pupil in ten knows how to speak on the drums, he has planned a special course to keep the ancient art alive...
...beat the Redskins in the competition.' The old drummer practically split the lips of his instrument beating out the message, and we walked over to the other drummer to ask what he had heard. His answer: 'The crocodile got the better of the leopard.' In the Congo, where crocodiles come big and leopards have tawny skins, that seemed close enough. My last doubts vanished...