Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the pine-trees crack like little guns in the silence of the wood, And the icicles hang down like tusks under the parka hood...
...Naked Earth (20th Century-Fox] may come as an unpleasant shock to Richard Todd fans. Actor Todd is well-known as the movie Robin Hood, romping boyishly about Sherwood Forest, bunging arrows at the Sheriff of Nottingham and dimpling at sight of Maid Marian. Now, all of a sudden, it turns out that he is shacked up with a Marseille whore in a thatched hut in Uganda...
...World of Strangers is a simple novel that dissolves harrowing complexities. To Johannesburg comes a young Englishman, Tobias Hood, to manage the branch office of his uncle's publishing business. His only feeling about race problems-and in fact most problems-is that he wants no part of them. Born into a family of compulsive do-gooders (he can still remember his mother reading crusading pamphlets in her bath), he candidly admits that "what I really wanted was to enjoy what was left of the privileged life to which I and my kind have no particular right...
...trouble with Tobias Hood, though at first he is not aware of it, is that he suffers from simple decency. When he is asked to a mixed party of whites and coloreds, he accepts and makes friends. He is shocked when, after some of these colored friends come to visit him at his office, his white secretary resigns in horror. As the education of Toby's heart proceeds, he finds himself leading a double life: his white pals and his mistress would drop him like a synthetic diamond if they knew that he was going to slum homes...
...world of racial strangers with easy accuracy. When she describes a party, white or mixed, a hunting trip, or an illicit visit to a colored shebeen (speakeasy), there is always a byproduct of insights into what is meant by every word or act. When she has finished with Toby Hood, he is a changed man. Any reader who shares Toby's indifference may feel at least the beginnings of a similar change of heart...