Word: dashikis
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...Cameroon, also a 2,000-to-1 shot with authoritative London bookies, its cup runneth over. After holding off the Peruvians, Cameroon's "untamable lions" repeated the performance against another respected contender, Poland. Dashiki-clad, singing, whistle-blowing fans from Cameroon cheered their team's offensive abandon. As Polish defenders frantically raced in front of the goal, Forward Roger Milla, instead of passing to an unguarded teammate as a normal soccer player would, kicked away, letting the ball carom off Polish bodies. No goal was scored, but such bizarre tactics stunned the Poles, amused the international press corps...
Basketball coach Frank McLaughlin: "You know, I get sick and tired of wearing those corny plaid three-piece suits all the time. I'd really feel much more comfortable in a dashiki and clogs during home games...
...well as hear when they are onstage. In last week's performance at Burden Hall at the Business school the singers captivated a crowd of over 300 people. Clad in a flowing white choral robe and white slacks, and topped by his shiny black Afro, Ingraham and the dashiki and and Afro-garbed choir exuded a contagious joy and enthusiasm in their singing. The audience forgot its own troubles for three hours and stood up and clapped and chanted and shouted amen and hallelujah with the Kuumbas. Despite the hard work, lack of support and other problems, Walters's evaluation...
...become more sympathetic: he began to help those who helped themselves by responding to his grace. Pious white Sunday-school art has since made Jesus into an effete Aryan rather than a rugged Jewish carpenter, but that image is hardly more subjective than the contemporary Black Jesus in a dashiki. No more biblically authentic is a recent Presbyterian-Methodist TV spot: Jesus fends off the accusers of the Bible's adulterous woman, but the script omits his admonition: "Sin no more...
...upper-class black with a $45,000 salary, Young neither shunned blunt talk when addressing white banquets nor donned a dashiki to convince his fellow blacks that he had soul. He was always an individual, difficult to classify. Young's special strength, notes a black journalist, was that "he was urbane enough to talk with the fat cats downtown and hip enough to talk with the tough cats uptown and he never seemed out of place doing either." Indeed, even some of the most bitter black spokesmen came to warmly appreciate Young. When informed of his death, Poet...