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...past hundred years, but they are heirs to centuries of oral literature. In their search for an African identity, the continent's contemporary poets-many of them leading politicians-today have forsaken their mission-school Golden Treasury to rediscover the pagan rhymes and rhythms that enlivened tribal life long before the white man came. Says Léopold Sédar Senghor, who is black Africa's most distinguished poet as well as President of Senegal: "Poetry must find its way back to its origins...
...Tribal Rites. In any case, Mary McCarthy, Vassar '33, brings an insider's view to a U.S. social phenomenon unique in the English-speaking world: the college-educated woman who stays "college-centered" in a way that English upper-class boys are fixed in patterns by their public schools. The Group is a pioneer work in the anthropology of this female tribe. It describes its initiation ceremonies, its tribal rites, its system of punishment for deviation. Its appeals are neither to God nor to what used to be called prophetically "mere man," but to the group opinion...
...measure of national unity. His fairly competent army of 50,000 men controls the main cities and about 50% of the Texas-sized nation. About 35% of the area is no man's land, and the remaining 15% is divided among a variety of insurgents, ranging from tribal groups, such as the Shans, Karens and Kachins, to two major bands of Communist insurgents, 1) the Trotskyite Red Flag movement, and 2) the larger White Flag Communists, who are fragmented into Stalinist and Revisionist wings. Still another insurgent outfit is composed of several hundred Chinese Nationalist soldiers who fled their...
...beach resembles Seal Rock in mating season. Frankie Avalon, with his pack of gold-necklaced surf jockeys, and Annette Funicello, with her bevy of busty beach bunnies are-in the words of one of their tribal hymns-"just asurfin' all day and swingin' all night." But danger lurks in the dunes: a marauding band of post-Brando wild ones roars up on a midnight raid. Quinquagenarian Cummings, with precious little help from Frankie, sends them yelping off with their motorcycles tucked between their legs...
...swaying Latin American rhythms. The combination earns them about $15,000 a month. "We ourselves like pure jazz best," says one Okayiste, "but our people don't like it. If we only played jazz, we'd soon go broke." Always on the lookout for old African tribal melodies, band members often go into the bush to watch village dances, rework the tunes when they return to town. Often old men appear from villages with melodies they want the Okayistes to hear. "They play it on their primitive instruments-a few strings strung across a box," says...