Word: doves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more a blind, biological ferment than a self-conscious surge of nationalism. Africa is still a land of weirdness and surprise: of seven-foot giants like the Watussi, the world's champion high jumpers; dwarf antelopes no bigger than a terrier, and goliath beetles the size of a dove; Pygmy hunters with humplike buttocks, and the society of Leopardmen, whose ferocious devotees riutilate their victims with tiny knives that leave marks like a leopard's claws. Across Africa's unplowed ranges roam herds of big game, more numerous even than the buffalo that fed the North American...
...were such familiar faces as the Rev. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, Madame Sun Yatsen, Ilya Ehrenburg and Frédéric Joliot-Curie. But the congress needed a bigger new star than Sartre to revive public interest in its three-year-old slogans. Even a new Peace Dove by Picasso-soaring now, and plumper than the first one-and a street-sprinting exhibition by Czech Olympic Runner Emil Zatopek failed to draw crowds...
...most of such covers TIME has printed in recent years have been symbols of a bewildered world at mid-century - Mark III, the fabulous calculating machine (Jan. 23, 1950), the Pentagon (July 2, 1951), the Kremlin's warlike peace dove (Sept. 17, 1951), the partly human figure of the U.S. taxpayer in the wringer (March 10), and television's fixed eye (July...
...modern fairy tale, no more. The evil tycoons and down trodden mass are simplifications made for the sake of fantasy rather than ideology. Its hero, a poor, virtuous boy, could easily be Jack the Giant Killer or Aladdin with a magic lamp (though in this case it is a dove...
...count includes Mexican Painter Diego Rivera, Spanish Painter Pablo Picasso (creator of Communism's "peace" dove, which also became a TIME cover subject), Harry Bridges, convicted of perjury for denying that he was ever a Communist (TIME, April 17, 195°) and avowed U.S. Communists Eugene Dennis, Earl Browder...