Word: pans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along with its echoes of Britain's Westminster, the legislature over which Sir Abubakar presided last week had some of the flavor of a Pan-African Congress. On its benches tall, haughty Hausas, splendidly robed in green and scarlet, sat amongst volatile Ibos draped in white and azure gowns. Across the aisle were Yoruba tribesmen wrapped in gold, yellow and orange with little porkpie beanies on their heads. Between them, they constituted one of the world's noisiest Parliaments. Each speaker was greeted with cries of "Heah, heah" from his friends and derisory shouts of "Sit down...
...African countries. There is a possibility, says Leed, that Tom Mboya, the leader of the Kenya African National Party, who is now traveling in the U.S., will be able to participate in 20th Century Week. Oliver Tambo, an African escapee from South Africa and a leading force in the Pan-African movement, and Gaja Wachuku, held of the Nigerian delegation to the U.N., are also being sought...
...comedy of character, and in Cassel he has found a richly responsive instrument to play on: a comedian who, like Chaplin or Marie Dressier, is more an actor than a performer. And through the character Cassel creates-a ludicrous but lovable mixture of Don Juan and Peter Pan-the moviemaker says something subtle and gently ironic about the character of urban youth in modern France. But at the core of his comedy, in scenes that hop, skip and jump like almost nothing since Rene Clair's great comedies (The Million, The Italian Straw Hat), De Broca makes...
...Andrew Cohen, the British delegate to the Trusteeship Council, will speak on African problems along with possible speakers Tom Mboya of Kenya and Oliver Tambo, youthful Pan-African leaders...
...superstitious, links with the pagan past. In Rhodes, the peasants believe that a child conceived on March 25 must be born on Christmas Eve and will inevitably turn out to be a Kaous. A Kaous is an impish little devil, complete with horns, hoofs and pointed ears, descended from Pan. He circulates after dark, croaking, "Feathers or lead?" Either answer may be wrong, after which the Kaous mounts his victim like a horse for a breakneck ride across country, lashing him all the while with a stick...