Word: stints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dingaka may mark a trend of sorts. Most made-in-Africa melodramas use throbbing tom-toms and tribal dances merely as an exotic backdrop for the doings of great white hunters, drunken missionaries, or dissatisfied colonial wives. In Dingaka, South African Writer-Director Jamie Uys does not stint on music and dance, which are an absorbing show in themselves. But the details of native life always remain relevant to this earnest, primitive drama about a proud tribesman (Ken Gampu) whose thirst for vengeance hurls him against the apparatus of white justice in Johannesburg...
...sobering thought that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years"), 18 years since he got his M.A., he is still working on his doctoral dissertation, regards statistics as his life work. He may be tempted, though. For his two-week hungry i stint, Lehrer pocketed $7,000. That's a statistic to regard...
Three generations of Akers' forebears were Methodist ministers; he was a preacher only at heart. After his stint on the Post-Dispatch, he became a political reporter in Springfield, later moved up to Chicago for the A. P. during gang-war days. In 1937, Akers took a fling at politics himself and wound up as an assistant to Interior Secretary Harold Ickes. But he soon beat a hasty retreat. "Anybody who leaves the newspaper business for a political job," he says now, "is kind of silly...
...That seems no more than fair," the editorial said, citing the HYRC's Monday report. "The man who does not contribute his service stint to national security should be willing to contribute payment of some sort...
...Bricks. The remarkable thing is that Elvis the private human being has not been terribly touched by it all. He still calls elders of a year or more by their surnames, keeps in top physical shape with touch-football games, holds a black belt in karate (earned during his stint in the service), and can split a brick or a stacked pair of two-by-four boards with his right hand (which, as a result, is slightly deformed...