Word: joshua
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...souvenir (and promised that he would eventually be returned home). The Tahitian, a youth named Omai, soon became the pet of London Society. Dressed up in an elaborate frogged coat and sword, he was honored by budding Novelist Fanny Burney, who praised him as a "lyon of lyons." Sir Joshua Reynolds painted a portrait of him in a turban. He was even introduced to King George, whose name he mispronounced as he greeted him: "How do, King Tosh...
...death of General Wolfe at Quebec in the costumes and landscape in which it actually occurred, thus overturning the tradition that no hero could ever die except in the robes of ancient Greece, preferably with a temple or two in the background. West was a co-founder with Sir Joshua Reynolds of the Royal Academy of the Arts, and in 1772 King George appointed him historical painter to the court (his most recent commission: a Death of Stephen, for which the King proposes...
...months off, but the chances of finding a peaceful path to equitable power-sharing between the country's 278,000 whites and 6.1 million blacks now appear to be spent. Negotiations between Rhodesia's white Prime Minister, Ian Smith, and the country's leading black moderate, Joshua Nkomo, have collapsed. Britain's offer to resume transitional control of its breakaway colony, predicated on elections leading to black majority rule within two years, was summarily rejected by Salisbury...
...that torture of blacks in Rhodesia is "now employed almost as routine practice by both police and security forces." The methods include beatings, electric shock by electrodes and cattle prods, suspension in barrels of water, threats of castration. Preventive detention of black activists has long been commonplace (three leaders-Joshua Nkomo, Robert Mugabe and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole-together spent 30 years in jail). At least 700 political prisoners have been held for ten years or longer, said Amnesty...
RHODESIAN PRIME MINISTER Ian Smith's recent rejection of British proposals to establish black majority rule has all but precluded possibilities for the peaceful settlement of the country's racial power struggle. Smith's rejection of British mediation and last month's collapse of talks between Smith and Joshua Nkomo, the leader of the black African National Council's "internal faction" have brought Rhodesia to the brink of civil war. Moreover, the recent unification of the efforts of the presidents of Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Botswana to form a strategy to end white rule in Rhodesia represents a new solidification...