Word: unesco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intelligent lot whose dress (occasional paint and feathers) affords maximum ornamentation with minimum constriction, whose arsenal includes the fabled boomerang and whose mythology is more complicated than Carl Jung? On Sale in the U.S. last week was a handsome book published by the New York Graphic Society and UNESCO (Australia-Aboriginal Paintings; $15) which showed that aboriginal art, too, has surprising qualities...
...paintings serve a multitude of purposes: some are simply decoration, others help educate the children and a tew are used in magic rites. Ants and the damp soon destroy them all. The works reproduced in UNESCO's book were new when collected on a 1948 expedition, are probably the most ancient bark paintings remaining in existence
...which it was locked at the end of World War II. In 1946 the U.N. passed a resolution that member states withdraw their ambassadors from Madrid, and that Spain be denied any affiliation with U.N. agencies. In 1950 the resolution was repealed, and Spain is now a member of UNESCO and six other U.N. agencies. Last week U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold went a little further: after repeated proddings from Madrid, he invited Spain to send an official observer to the U.N. * Francisco Franco's well-trained press exulted that this was further proof that the "yellow flag...
...fine sense of precision also went into the post-war organization of UNESCO and other groups for international cooperation. But a visit to Russia's Science Jubilee and his stand against rough treatment for the soviets brought charges of "sympathizer," and an eventual clash with Congressman Rankin's Un-American Activities committee. "The insinuations were unbelievable," Shapley recalls, "I'm as strong an anti-communist as the average American, probably more so." With a grandfather who was an underground slave runner, Shapley believes in "vigorous citizenship--and I've got three hundred years of ancestors to back...
...periods in the Near East," Thomson continued. "He has contributed outstanding books to the field." These include "The Arab Conquests in Central Asia," "Mohammedanism," and the "The Damascus Chronicle of the Crusades." He is also the editor of the completely revised edition of the "Encyclopedia of Islam," sponsored by UNESCO...