Word: swahili
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There was a time-and it was not so long ago-when the first word in a standard English-Swahili phrase book was "boy" (meaning an African of any age), and one of the first sentences to be mastered was, "Boy, fetch my boots." But under the noses of the colonials, the natives were taking a subtle revenge. Last week the Chicago Natural History Museum put on display 31 primitive sculptures from what might be called "the Colonial School"-a school of art dedicated to the proposition that the master race is slightly ridiculous...
...departure climaxed a busy orientation week at PBH during which the group crammed on Swahili and African culture and listened to African visitors...
...enlisted in the Polish underground. In 1946 her mother bribed Russian guards and waded with her across a river into Czechoslovakia. Reunited in London, the family got U.S. citizenship in California. Editor of the campus magazine, Renata skis, swims, sails, speaks French. Polish, British-accented English, "and a little Swahili that I picked up on an African safari last year" (courtesy of a classmate's wealthy oilman father). Renata's hopes are for the retreat of Communism ("It goes against human nature") and a future teaching job in a U.S. college. She glows at the prospect of marriage...
National events impinged up on 1961 in many different ways. Most spectacular may have been President Kennedy's proposal for a Peace Corps, which met an immediately favorable response. Before the Federal project started, PBH announced "Project Tanganyika" to train students in Swahili and permit them to teach for a summer. Eastern Nigeria officials talked with Dean Monro, in an effort to obtain teachers. The popularity of the Corps scheme was manifested first in a poll circulated among 1961 members, and secondly by the number of students planning to visit Africa...
...boys, Land Rovers, guns, white hunters, impeccable service-right down to fine English china, antique silver, iced martinis and nine-course meals (lobster remoulade, filet mignon. etc., etc.). Cordon Rouge '49, and a snifter of brandy. As in all East Africa, travelers can quickly pick up enough Swahili to get along on the hunt, e.g., Memsahib nakwisha piga nyati; tia chini ya kitanda ("My wife has shot a buffalo; put it under the bed"), or Hapana taka piga simba leo. Tengeneza chandarua ya mbu na tafadhali ngoja kidogo nge ("I do not want to shoot a lion today...