Word: dias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WALTER MEIGS-Nordness, 831 Madison Ave. at 69th. Meigs' paintings make an alluring invitation to Greece where he has lived the past two years. He often plays sea green against sky blue, counterpoints the delicate sheen of acrylic polymer with the coarseness of his mixed me dia to create spatial ambiguities in Aegean landscapes and seascapes. Through...
...Senghor has never implemented his decree, and the ridiculous subsidies remain. And he did not even dare suggest a cut in basic pay, for fear of another upheaval like the one he put down 15 months ago, when a coup was led by his old friend, Premier Mahmadou Dia, and supported by some ministers, the territorial guard and the gendarmerie...
...might say that things were rigged in advance when ex-Premier Mamadou Dia went on trial last week for attempting to seize power in December. After all, six of the seven "judges" were members of the National Assembly that Dia had tried to dissolve by force during the abortive coup. They just might be a little prejudiced. But when the proceedings began, the court was careful to observe all the flowery decorum of Gallic justice. The presiding judge was resplendent in ermine-trimmed long red robes, and sat listening with calm dignity. Moreover, Dia was not even charged with "plotting...
...outcome was also, in a sense, a painful defeat for Black Africa's most distinguished intellectual. For it had been the bespectacled Senghor who originally installed Senegal's two-headed system of divided powers after leading the country into independence 2½ years ago. Until he and Dia fell out, French-oriented Senghor* loftily ridiculed other French African nations that had chosen one-man rule. Now, whatever his continuing popularity at home, Senghor has probably lost some of his effectiveness as the leading spokesman for political liberalism in former French Africa...
...African ever to win France's coveted agregation de grammaire academic degree, and he served with distinction as a territorial member of the postwar French National Assembly. By all accounts, he has been brooding over the political circumstances which forced him to end his 17-year friendship with Dia and take over as strongman. But Senghor was not likely to let his sense of guilt get him down. He is, after all, a strong admirer of Charles de Gaulle, and modeled his new constitution partly on De Gaulle's design for the Fifth Republic in Paris. Perhaps with...