Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Republicans in Diapers. "I've been subjected to the damndest bunch of intellectual balderdash that I've seen come out of politics in a hell of a long time. I've been represented as being responsible for the 'Pearl Harbor whitewash' [he was counsel for the Pearl Harbor Committee], although I battled the committee for a whole month. I've been accused of being responsible for everything the Loyalty Review Board did, although I sat in just two cases . . . I've been charged by Republicans . . . with being only a nominal Republican, and these...
...California-born (1902) and Texas-bred; graduate of Texas' military-minded Agricultural & Mechanical College, where he helped earn his way by peddling candy in dormitories, played trumpet in the school band; in 1923, he entered the Army Air Service, worked up the peacetime ladder; on the eve of Pearl Harbor, he was deputy chief of staff, Sixth Air Force at Albrook Field, Panama Canal Zone...
...Pearl spent more than a year visiting 30 tribes - in the Gold Coast, the Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa and Nigeria. In western Nigeria, the Yoruba tribe named her "Omowale," or "child has returned home." She took part in stately court and social dances, was taught the ceremonials of puberty and hunting...
...Greenwich Village's Café Society last week, she gave her nightclub fans a prayer dance first. "That makes the audience think 'Here is a person who is serious,' " Pearl says. "Once I show them my dignified side, I can be as wild as I feel." When she got down to the "strength" and "fertility" dances, her thrusting, thumping power, matched to the savage beat of a hand-patted African drum, was wild enough to stand the customer's hair on end. It was all certified genuine: "Everything I do is consistent with what...
...Pearl, 31, now varies her nightclub routine with teaching (and working at Columbia University on her Ph. D. thesis in anthropology, to be published by Mac-millan). She would like to do a whole "dance-play," has hopes of getting such a play produced on Broadway next year. With "actors trained by me," she would try to accomplish a threefold ambition: "To speak as an individual, to portray the spirit of Africa, and to do it through the African dance idiom...