Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reaffirmed my belief that Africa should be governed by the black man. No one can supply the leadership needed for a nation if that person is not truly a native. England and the rest of Europe had better wake up to the fact that colonization is long since past. No tea-sipping, drab Englishman sitting in London or Johannesburg, regardless of his vast knowledge and experience, knows all the problems and needs of the African. NORMAN EDWARD ROURKE Tulsa...
...news, like a great river, gathers its unity and strength and direction from the tributaries of seemingly separate events. It is TIME'S weekly purpose not only to follow those tributaries from their sources in the past but to show and give them meaning at their confluence in contemporary history...
...life seemed ended when the barbaric Goths came pillaging, leaving behind them ruins of Roman art. But the Goths themselves, even while deriving from the Romans, gave their name to an art form that took its own place in the cultural current. Henry Moore draws from this past, as from the past of the savage idol carvers of Africa, Central America and the South Seas. But he has also moved beyond the past, and in so doing he is the representative of a group of brilliant moderns who have led the way to the greatest resurgence of sculpture since...
...other giants-Lockheed, Douglas, Boeing. General Dynamics, et al.-are hopeful that the worst is over. Even so, the future promises to be more Spartan than the past. The Government has issued ample warnings that it no longer will doctor ailing firms with contracts just to keep their facilities in shape for an emergency. In the missile age, the fight will be won by what is on the firing line and not, as in the past, by what could come off the assembly line...
...National Gallery of Art. played his own flamenco guitar score for a production of Tennessee Williams' The Purification. He made a bow to jazz by playing in England and Saudi Arabia with the Woody Herman band, has also composed music for modern dance groups, and for the past two years has been combining classics and jazz at the Showboat...