Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Correspondent Curtis Prendergast, "before he is taken aside and asked, 'Well, how long do you think this can last?' " After two years of reporting the ever-changing African story (including such major pieces as the cover story on Guinea's Sekou Toure), Prendergast finds that the question is in itself a kind of answer - a tacit admission by Africa's whites that they can resist and delay but cannot stop the move for increasing African rule. Africa has become a land of two timetables: the impatient black says "Freedom Now"; the white says "Later...
Africa's whites, watching the trains go by, know well the implications of what the mine trains carry-the white man's fancy goods earned by the black man's new skills. No longer is there a question of where the African is going. The questions now are: Who can hold back the tide? And, what place will there be for the white...
...Long? The question of time preoccupies everyone. The stark fact is that what might have satisfied the African a few years ago no longer does. In Britain's Central African Federation, the old "Europeans Only" signs have faded from the park benches, but in the wake of all the mass arrests of African nationalists, the interracial bench has little impact even as a token of intention. In South Africa, where the police are strong and the blacks still leaderless, the system may last for years to come. Elsewhere, the chief pastime of the African politician is to draw...
Cold-War Indifference. Guinea aside, the question of Communist influence does not-at least as yet-seriously arise. Though the present African leaders are almost all Western-educated and Western-minded, they are highly indifferent to the struggle between East and West. They seem to be much too possessive about their new position to ally themselves with other powers, even with one another...
...vocal soloists, chorus and full orchestra, and the bass part, ranging from middle B-flat to low E-flat, is the most difficult of all. At Venice, says Conductor Robert Craft, who rehearsed Threni's chorus, the starring role should have been the tenor, "but there was no question that Oliver ran away with all the honors." Last week music lovers could hear for themselves what all the excitement is about. On sale was a Columbia recording of Threni that put Missileman Oliver's amazing performance on permanent exhibit...