Word: frenched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When French Socialist Pierre Joseph Proudhon [1809-1865] inflamed the mobs of Paris with his "the great are only great because we are on our knees-let us rise!", he turned idealism into a bloodbath. So, too, misdirected Fidel Castro, not the head of a mob, but the tail that it wagged, becomes the latest 20th century champion of "People's Democracy...
...Touré is as dynamic a platform performer as any in all Black Africa. He is the idol of his 2,500,000 people, and the shadow he casts over Africa stretches far beyond the borders of his Oregon-sized country. As the head of the only French territory to vote against De Gaulle's constitution and thus to choose complete independence, he has been suddenly catapulted into the forefront of the African scene. Last week somnolent, picturesque Conakry was getting to know how it feels to be the capital of an independent nation. France, Britain...
...born in the right place and with the right ancestry to favor a big role. Though Africa was, until the Europeans came, the continent that could not write, it had known its times of glory. Guinea was once part of the powerful Mali Empire that stretched from the French Sudan, on the upper reaches of the Niger, to just short of West Africa's Atlantic Coast. When its 14th century ruler, the Mansa (Sultan) Musa, made his pilgrimage to Mecca, he traveled with a caravan of 60,000 men, and among his camels were 80 that each bore...
...captivity by the Egyptians, was accepted as a Moslem and was able to make his famed journey safely to Timbuktu. After him other Frenchmen came, and eventually, by the "rules of the game,"*laid down by the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 for spreading civilization throughout darkest Africa, French hegemony over the area was recognized. The "scramble for Africa" was on, and there was little the Africans could do about...
...Eliot Drama Group Will open its spring season Thursday, Feb. 26 with three traditional farces on an arena stage. Cervante's The Judge of the Divorce Court, Holberg's The Healing Spring, and an anonymous French play, Master Pierre Patelin, make up the program...