Word: witzel
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...basic problem, Witzel said, remains: "the administration has not started a procedure to make [Asani] a full professor...
...However, Witzel said that...
...There are rising numbers in the South Asian population [at Harvard]," Witzel said. "Part of our concern is that these students want to study their roots and may not be able...
...Starchy, ambitious young Langford (Richard Carlson) goes out to the Congo, around 1910, to help run a rubber plantation. As he disembarks from the Congo Queen his unstarched predecessor is carried aboard, toes turned up, Britain-bound. Says young Langford: "Blahsted hot today." His new boss Witzel (Walter Pidgeon) moves off, moaning "I was waiting for that phrase." Witzel gives Langford the advice needed to keep Empire whole and hale: "Never let the [native] men see you are afraid of them-and don't mammy-palaver!" Before young Langford is many hours wiser, he begins to realize what mammy...
...ducks. When Tondelayo dances for him the Temptation of St. Anthony looks like a game of pease-porridge-cold. After young Langford marries her. she stops calling him awyla ("my man"), whines for new bangles, begs him to beat her. When he refuses, she starts calling the unwilling Witzel awyla, does her best to poison her husband. By the time his starchy successor is saying "Blahsted hot today," superheated Langford is steaming down the Congo, Britain-bound...