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Pragmatism and Polygamy. Though Europe's universities outrank the U.S.'s in Nigerian esteem, Orizu heard American universities praised by a fellow countryman, came to the U.S. in 1939, at Ohio State took his degree in government with honors, proceeded to an M.A. at Columbia. Through his American Council on African Education he has thus far secured 150 U.S. college scholarships for his countrymen. In a few months he expects to go home (where he may or may not resume the throne) and begin working at first hand to improve Nigeria's 36,626 schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prince with a Purpose | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

...gesture of contempt for foreigners); unrestrained savagery against helpless peoples; preoccupation with "face" (which Gorer traces to Japanese parents' sensitiveness to ridicule of an ill-behaved child by outsiders). The Japanese, says Gorer, do not stick together well under attack; they readily turn against a fellow countryman placed in a ridiculous position by outsiders-a fact which, he thinks, accounts for hara-kiri and the frequent changes in Japanese military leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Why Are Japs Japs? | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

...Said one countryman: "If you want to eat corn, you'd better be a hog." Headlined the Charleston, S.C. News & Courier: "CALAMITY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: It's a Long Time between Grits | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Regarding Prime Minister Churchill's warning to the Allied peoples (TIME, July 12), he might have quoted a fellow countryman as well as St. Paul. Remarked Boss Witch Hecate in Shakespeare's Macbeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 26, 1943 | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...book with observations on cooking, dressing, neighborliness, forest fires, fishing, customs, communications. But she has no scorn for city dwellers: "In spite of the literary convention of bursting barns, overflowing larders, and cellars crammed with luscious preserves and delicious smoked hams, in spite of the accepted version of the countryman as being clad in the warmest and best of wools . . . the country standard of living is very much lower than the city standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Escape to Maine | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

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