Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MUSEUM OF PRIMITIVE ART-15 West 54th. Ivory drums, carved canoe prows and paddles, dance shields and other ob jects from the Massim region of New Guinea. Also 60 tempera paintings of primitive sculpture by Mexican Miguel Covarrubias, an important scholar in the field. Through...
...ostensible cause of all this was eight sonic booms every 24 hours, day after day, week after week-a pattern of thunderclaps for the area's 750,000 inhabitants who have become guinea pigs in a six-month Federal Aviation Agency test. The test is to determine the effect upon groundlings of flights by supersonic transport aircraft, which the U.S. is about ready to develop, when they start crisscrossing the country in the early 1970s...
...Guinea's quest for autonomy was hastened by the freedom fad among the world's underdeveloped nations. Fearful of being branded colonialist, Australia, which administers both territories, reluctantly stepped up its self-government timetable. Seven months ago, 400 electoral teams began penetrating the interior to teach the natives the rudiments of democracy...
Their task was complicated by the fact that among New Guinea's 2,000,000 people, nearly 750 different languages are spoken. The lingua franca is pidgin - an amalgam of missionary English, Malay, and local dialects...
...Miles Davis. Miles broods in his beautiful town house, teaching his son to box so that he won't fear white men, raging at every corner of a world that has made him wealthy, a world that is now, in Guinea and the Congo as well as in Alabama and New York, filled with proud little boys who call themselves Miles Davis. He is a man who needs to shout, but his anger is trapped in a hoarse whisper caused by an injury to his vocal cords. The frustration shows...