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Expedition! (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.).* "The Lost World of the Kalahari," a safari to find the last of the Bushmen...
Most of their struggles are internal: soundless voices scream for help while faces keep smiling gamely. But Author Gordimer can describe the outer world as evocatively as the inner chaos of man. A slight story, The Bridegroom, comes alive in its loving account of a night on the Kalahari Desert, a vast stretch of grey sand, thorn bushes and cratered earth, under a "spiky spread of cold stars." In The Gentle Art, she neatly combines her love of the African land with her often shocked observation of its inhabitants. It deals with another night under the cold stars, this time...
...visitors plan to live in Africa from mid-November to May. They are making the last of six expeditions to the Bushmen who live in the Kalahari desert. The scientists are especially interested in the Kung tribe, and they have already made records of native scenes, music, and language on 250,000 feet of colored motion picture film and hundreds of feet of tape recordings...
...Among the first of the African groups Malvina Hoffman finished for the Hall of Man was a family group of the Kalahari Bushmen. Sculptor Hoffman's models, found in a native village, were approved by anthropologists from Cape Town as typical examples of the race, but in anthropological handbooks the women of the Kalahari Bushmen are invariably noted for the enormous size of their buttocks. Later German scientists complained that the modeled Kalahari Bushwoman was not sufficiently steatopygic. Seriously Malvina Hoffman replied that because of the controversy she had arranged to have the buttocks of her bronze Bushwoman made...
...Manchester Guardian quoted "the editor of one of the earliest of South African newspapers" on how to bag lions in the Kalahari Desert, as follows: ''The Kalahari is principally composed of sand and lions. First sift the sand through a large sieve, when only the lions will remain. These you place in a bag carried for the purpose...