Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nearly six months ago, when U.S.-educated (Pennsylvania's Lincoln University) Kwame Nkrumah joyously proclaimed "Ghana is free," 50,000 of his Gold Coast countrymen cheered him to the skies. Last week, pulling up to Accra's National Assembly building in a new Rolls-Royce, flanked by jeep outriders, golden-tongued Premier Nkrumah jovially waved a handkerchief to the surrounding crowd and waited for the customary applause. What he got instead was a thunderous hooting-the beginning of two days of rioting in Accra, which brought 100 arrests...
Patrick White is an intellectual Australian novelist who hates to write about intellectuals and loves to write about Australians. His thoughtful novels (this is his fifth) make him somewhat enigmatic to his countrymen. Can such deep thoughts be harbored about such seemingly simple people as he portrays...
...some 27 million visits by U.S. residents in return. Buffalo TV stations regularly draw bigger audiences in Toronto than does the government-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Canadian Novelist Hugh (Two Solitudes) MacLennan complained recently that a Canadian writer has to get his book published in New York before his countrymen will...
...write more than 130 plays, ranging from semiserious portrayals of great men (Pasteur, Mozart) to whipped-cream farces (L'Illusionniste), in the '30s added films (The Story of a Cheat). In his acting, he epitomized the wry, shoulder-shrugging French bon vivant, but bitterly offended countrymen by continuing to act and write under the Nazi occupation ("I didn't want Paris to die . . ."), was once (1948) kidnaped by former resistance fighters in Lyon, forced to stand at silent attention for one minute before a memorial to martyred war heroes...
...British government accepts this analysis. Last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft said: "If a nation pays itself 7% more for doing no more work, as happened last year, price increases will follow as the night follows day." But Thorneycroft is loth to do more than exhort his countrymen to work harder and resist gains that cancel themselves out. Committed both to freedom from controls and to an expanding economy ("Wages are going up and ought to go up"), Thorneycroft has no answer to inflation except the conviction that growth in time will restore balance in Britain. The failure...