Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Matadi, 160 miles southwest of Léopoldville, 400 Congolese were suddenly overcome by hysteria after listening to a sermon by one of the many "apostles" of Kibangu, a "black savior" who died in 1951 but is expected by his followers to return one day and drive out the white man. The result was a pitched battle with black Congolese police, which left six Africans dead. But of all the troubles that beset the Congo last week, none so clearly foreshadowed the future as the massacre at Luluabourg, 500 miles east of Léopoldville...
...seen in the frequent instances of murder by stabbing. The city is infested by gangs of hardened wretches.' One doesn't have to look very far to see whom Philip Hone blames for this distress: Irishmen, 'the most ignorant and consequently the most obstinate white men in the world...
...What Chandler (who died last March) would think of the rest of the TV show is not quite so certain. On the picture tube his man lives a little too high, operates with a little too much fash. The original would have looked at the posh bachelor apartment, the white convertible, the sharp wardrobe, and bet the lonely fin in his pocket that this guy was on the take from some wrongos...
...singer in a Harlem hotspot who signs on for a bank robbery to pay off his bookie. Unhappily, once he is in, he discovers that another member of the gang is a paranoid punk from Oklahoma (Robert Ryan) who would sooner risk the bundle than his sense of white supremacy. The punk calls the Negro "Brother Bones," and warns him not to "crap out" on the job. "Ah been handlin' [Negroes] all mah life. He's no diff'ent because he's got him a twenty-dollah pair a shoes...
...Samson sleeps in the foreground of a landscape that is as weird and as familiar as a dream. Behind a bare tree in the background hover the Philistines, ready to pounce upon the sheared ram of God. Watteau's study of lovers in a park makes black, white and red stand for all the colors of the rainbow. In Watteau, love and laughter blend into one. To round the gallery corner to Goya's Two Prisoners in Irons can be like taking a header off a cliff. Unlike the monster-painters, whose malformed "images...