Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mosque: sobs, wails, cries from the soul. Even when performed by as dulcet a fadista as Amália, they are more forlorn than a foghorn, more despairing than a moan. Fado means destiny in Portuguese, and the Weltschmerz of a good fado gets a physical grip on its audience; like "ffillie Holiday's blues, fados encourage a state of mind well beyond the reach of popular music...
...himself grappled with the would be killer and finally disarmed him. "Don't hurt him," Nkrumah was quoted as yelling to the guards. "Don't kill him. Put your guns down." All the while, proclaimed the official party newspaper admiringly, Osagyefo held the assailant in a jujitsu grip-"a demonstration of the Leader's moral, spiritual and physical strength over his enemies." But an official photograph purporting to show Nkrumah in the act of subduing the culprit started a wave of rumors that the whole incident was rigged to boost Aweful's popularity at home...
...hands that grip the gouges are as calloused as a carpenter's; the eyes that guide them brood with the sad sensitivity of a romantic poet. A chipper, Groucho Marxist mustache contradicts both hands and eyes. They all belong to Printmaker Antonio Frasconi, 44, one of the U.S.'s foremost woodcut artists. In February, more than 80 of his whorled and scratch-lined works (see opposite page) will begin a two-year long tour of U.S. museums. Sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution, the show demonstrates Frasconi at his versatile best, running from bright, bird-wreathed seascapes to dark...
Turkey seems to be in the grip of a perpetual crisis. After the army toppled the corrupt, free-spending regime of Premier Adnan Menderes in 1960 and executed him, the military ruled ineffectually for 18 months, then let civilians take over. Durable Ismet Ino-nu became Premier, decided to try to hold the country together amidst the lingering bitterness without curbing parliamentary democracy. Probably no one else could have done it. Inonu, 80, seemed like an embodiment of Turkey's past: born under the Sultanate, he was one of Kemal Ataturk's most dashing revolutionary generals, first became...
Jamaica. Upon getting independence, the 1,600,000 Jamaicans made no headlong rush to erase their British past. Coins and currency still bear Queen Elizabeth's likeness, and British-trained civil servants, both white and black, retain a firm grip on important ministries. Spry old Sir Alexander Bustamante, 79, the craggy-faced patriarch of a Premier, preaches patience, order and unswerving friendship with the West...