Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many writers affect to understand Africa; Author Dinesen accepts and respects its opacities ("All roots demand darkness"). She draws a memorable portrait of Farah, her face-conscious Somali majordomo, "unfailingly loyal, a cheetah noiselessly following me about at a distance of five feet, or a falcon holding onto my finger with strong talons and turning his head right and left...
...most parts of the world, the authors report, death gives warning of its approach. Boards creak, bushes rustle, dogs howl. In Poland, according to one old superstition, when a man discovers a white spot underneath the nail of the little finger, left hand, he knows he's had it. When death is near, most societies require the presence of close relatives and a religious functionary. In Tibet, a lama must be there to pluck a hair of the dying man's head so that the soul can escape through the root-hole. In Turkey, a hoca (holy...
...never again be called "boy," considers himself part of an anointed elite. On graduation, he feels that he can preserve his special status only by entering the civil service. Until lately, upon landing at Ibadan's lavish campus, the undergraduate has hardly had to lift a finger. Room servants tended his every need. When Ibadan recently put in a cafeteria, outraged students went on strike...
Pleading a lack of orders, the U.N.'s Stanleyville garrison of 1,500 Ethiopian troops raised hardly a finger at these outrages; but last week, when the threats of beheadings came in from Stanleyville's Salumu, U.N. headquarters finally went into action. U.N. chief of staff, Ethiopia's General Mangashalyassu, was rushed to the scene to take over. He quickly commandeered a school building in which all the 2,000 whites of the province were offered haven and surrounded it with his troops. But several Belgians, in the Stanleyville jail on other charges, already were in Salumu...
...Delhi, citing Lazarus' finger-chewing story as evidence, Jawaharlal Nehru again lectured his Parliament on the brutality of the regime headed by Congolese Strongman Colonel Joseph Mobutu. Again a check by Willie's competitors demolished his scoop: an inspection by a Belgian doctor found Lumumba under rigorous confinement in a Congolese army camp but with his fingers intact. But at week's end, despite outraged rumblings from the Congolese government, Willie Lazarus was sticking to his story. Said he: "I can't prove it, but I still believe...