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...Ford grant guests--a Zulu artist and an authority on witchcraft--will visit Dunster House during the next two weeks, the House office announced yesterday...
...Selbourne Mvusi, a Zulu painter and sculptor, will arrive Saturday for three days, sponsored by Gordon W. Allport '19, Professor of Psychology. A leader in the movement to develop native African art, Mr. Mvusi is Director of Art Education for Bantu children attending the Loram Native School in Durban, Natal...
Broadway's Far East kick is creating a huge, cumulative casting problem, and the man who is coping with most of it is Agent Tony Rivers, Manhattan's leading Oriental flesh peddler (he inherited his business from his former boss, Kaie Deei, a part-Egyptian, part-Zulu agent, who specialized in Negroes, Orientals and American Indians). Agent Rivers is finding the white man's burden heavy. Biggest problem: Asians tend to act with rigidity and gliding formalism. To fill the part of Sammy Fong, unofficial mayor of Chinatown, Flower Drum's Casting Director Ed Blum finally...
Pennywhistle lyrics have also become the urban African's version of the bush telegraph, warning against fickle women, street fights and raids by the "head-bashers" (white cops). Some titles convey political messages. One called Azi Khwelwa ("We don't ride" in Zulu) was banned by South African officials after they learned that natives took it as an incitement to boycott Jim Crow buses...
Critics charge that the message in contemporary juveniles is one of tame social "adjustment" and of a vast, undifferentiat-ing tolerance. "Love thy neighbor." they say, has been replaced by "Love that minority." Books by the hundred set out to show that "the little Zulu or heathen Chinee is absolutely like you and me." Sociologist David Riesman analyzes Tootle as appropriate for bringing up children "in an other-directed mode of conformity": a story about a locomotive that learns to stay on the track like other docile little engines, instead of wandering happily in the fields. In Play With...