Word: shadowings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Club, the square black tent which housed the gallows from which scores of Mau Mau were hanged has been taken away, and at Thomson's Falls, scene of several massacres, a horticultural show was recently held. Life, it seemed, was back to normal. The Multiple Vote. But the shadow of the Mau Mau panga has left Kenya in a thoughtful mood. The idea that Africans should take part in the government of the country, laughed at three years ago, is now being seriously discussed. Negroes, constituting 97% of Kenya's 5,900,000 population, are represented...
Intoxicated by Light. Sam Francis' ambitious specialty is nothing less than exploring the quality of light itself. "Not just the play of light and shadow," he adds, "but the substance of which light is made. I'm intoxicated by light...
...frightening prediction last week cast a shadow on the healthy and growing figures of U.S. life expectancy (69 years). The prediction: 31 out of every 100 males and 36 out of every 100 females born in the U.S. this year will eventually die of cancer. Without cancer, these children could expect to live about 15 years longer...
Africa threw a shadow over the entire year in both fiction and nonfiction. Religion was probably the leading single subject: the Bible may have had its biggest year of all time. Inspirational books kept booming, e.g., How to Live 365 Days a Year and The Answer Is God. Norman Vincent Peale's Power of Positive Thinking dominated the bestseller lists for the second year, with no end in sight...
While 1955 was no vintage year for biography, there were some good short lives and two or three jobs of major quality. None seemed so anxious to tell all as actresses or their biographers-from Mary Pickford (Sunshine and Shadow) to Ethel Barrymore (Memories) to Katharine Cornell (Me and Kit) to the late Gertrude Lawrence as Mrs. A. The best work was done by writers who wrote about other writers...