Word: popping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smith is slim, white-haired, countrified in speech, friendly in manner. He publishes the tiny (circ. 2,000) weekly Argus in the midstate town (pop. 7,400) of Robinson. He golfs and fishes, is a Rotarian and a former statewide vice president of the Elks. Fascinated newsmen describe him as the healer who wound up as Illinois Republican chairman in 1960 because, in a party ripped and bloodied with faction, "he was the only man nobody...
...urgency of Cuba's farm production is everywhere apparent in the countryside. Castro has promised that the sugar-cane crop "will be 10 million tons rain or no rain" by 1970. Echoing his call are red and yellow pop-art billboards along the roads proclaiming "ten million in '70," while Santa Clara bars push the "ten million cocktail"-a concoction of rum, triple sec and cane sugar. But publicity and propaganda do not grow sugar cane, and most experts doubt that Castro can deliver on his promise. After a prolonged drought, this year's crop...
Cricket and Rugby. Europeans founded black African colleges on the premise that natives ought to be first Westernized, then educated. Despite the fact that political leaders fulminate against the West and neocolonialism, the universities' goal remains the same. In Uganda (pop. 6,845,000), where per capita income is $8 a year, students at Makerere University College attend Oxford-style "Old Boy" dances, eat in for mal dining halls, and join in such rousing un-African activities as squash, cricket and rugby. Nowhere on the campus is there evidence of Africa's rich musical, artistic and folk heritage...
...situation is worse in French-speaking West Africa. In all nine countries (pop. 26 million), there are only two universities, Senegal's University of Dakar, and the Ivory Coast's University of Abidjan, together enrolling fewer than 3,000 students. Though Senegal's economy is almost completely grounded on farming, there is no school of agriculture at the brightly flowered, Dakar campus. In the Congo (Léopoldville), the University of Lovanium proudly displays one of Africa's few nuclear reactors. As a result, it has dozens of black students solving mysteries of nuclear physics, only...
There is more P. G. Wodehouse in The Do-Gooders than the deadly amoral wit of Bruce Jay Friedman or Joseph Heller. The true black humorists spring from Franz Kafka, Céline, James Joyce and Nathanael West. Imitations like this owe their origins to the pop-art Campbell soup cans, underground "art" movies, and the overpowering amplification systems that give rock music its driving force...