Word: drum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exhibition, but she couldn't have played it any other way. And in fact, a good part of the cast kept doing things I wouldn't have suspected they'd be up to. Actors with no apparent sense of timing turned out to be marching to a distant crucial drum. Some sooty cripple who would have been booed down at a PTA benefit stuck up her face and said her little pice at, peek-a-boo, just the moment a touch of farce...
Nakasa's own life is a case in point. An editor of the South African magazine Drum, a weekly columnist, and possibly South Africa's leading African journalist, Nakasa was denied a passport by the South African government which would have enabled him to arrive at the University in time to accept a Nieman Fellowship. Instead, he was given an exit permit, allowing him to come (he arrived two months late), but at the expense of his citizenship. Should he try to return to South Africa, Nakasa faces trial and up to three years' imprisonment--all because of his journalistic...
...offices of the local newspaper for Africans, the Natal Sun. Within a month he was writing stories, and after a year he travelled 400 miles north to the golden city of Johannesburg, where he went to work for a major South African paper, the Post, and its sister publication, Drum. In addition to his work there, Nakasa founded a literary quarterly, Crisis (with contributors ranging from Doris Lessing to Leopold Senghor), and started a weekly column for a prestigious white paper, the Rand Daily Mail, the first such column by an African...
...Uberfretndung [foreign saturation] is treason to our youth and the heritage of our forebears," rants a pamphlet trying to drum up a national referendum to oust the Ausländer. A secret organization that calls itself the Delta Group has threatened "subversive action with methods borrowed from the Fascists" to rid Switzerland of "undesirable foreign elements." Last week Genevois were being exhorted to vote against a "monstrous" city-council housing project for the personnel at the old League of Nations building, which "would lead to unbridled proliferation of foreign functionaries and their privileges...
...feel ready for the role). She spent her time instead singing avant-garde music at the Hollywood Bowl under the direction of Igor Stravinsky, dubbed in the singing voice for Dorothy Dandridge in the movie Carmen Jones, was a disembodied voice in Hollywood's Flower Drum Song...