Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interesting article [on nationalist growing pains in Africa, Aug. 31], I reaffirmed my belief that Africa should be governed by the black man. No one can supply the leadership needed for a nation if that person is not truly a native. England and the rest of Europe had better wake up to the fact that colonization is long since past. No tea-sipping, drab Englishman sitting in London or Johannesburg, regardless of his vast knowledge and experience, knows all the problems and needs of the African. NORMAN EDWARD ROURKE Tulsa...
SHOCK THEATER-"The title tells all. Many of the viewers are children who follow the show in a state of fascination and torpor. What is the purpose of this thing, anyway-to make us wake up screaming...
...Play." But the dispute between legislators and labor leaders was not the only-and perhaps not the most important-result of the House labor vote. In the wake of that vote came a split in House Democratic ranks that may well influence the whole legislative course for a long while to come. Although they fight each other on civil rights issues, Northern liberals and Southern conservatives have long scratched each others' backs in other areas: Northerners, for example, have supported such Southern-backed bills as price supports for peanuts, tobacco and cotton, while Southerners have helped put across Northern...
...Long? The question of time preoccupies everyone. The stark fact is that what might have satisfied the African a few years ago no longer does. In Britain's Central African Federation, the old "Europeans Only" signs have faded from the park benches, but in the wake of all the mass arrests of African nationalists, the interracial bench has little impact even as a token of intention. In South Africa, where the police are strong and the blacks still leaderless, the system may last for years to come. Elsewhere, the chief pastime of the African politician is to draw...
...gambles with his own son's life and loses, does so much as a shadow of remorse flicker across his cynical, craggy old face. And does the villain finally get his comeuppance? Not really. Presumably he goes on making bigger deals by day even if, in the wake of his son's suicide, he does not sleep well by night...