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CREDOS AND CURIOS (180 pp.)-James Thurber-Harper & Row ($3.95).
The Sky Above - The Mud Below returns, in grittily absorbing documentary fashion, to the Stone Age. Filmed in the cruel, uncharted jungle of interior New Guinea, it is a salute to man's unquenchable zest for adventure and a pictorial diary of age-old sociological curios, from headhunting to...
Slow & Tough. Stans opposes the Administration's medical-care plan, its deficit budget, its tendency to "paternalism." He composes his thoughts on foolscap tablets at home among the African curios in his den or during long airplane flights.
One tribe practices the cult of the severed head. Young boys entering warrior-hood spend an initiation night in the men's communal hut cradling a freshly cut enemy head between their knees-a ceremony that requires a new crop of heads each time. The headhunters, photographed in the...
That the audience laughed at so much else on the program casts doubt on the seriousness of newer innovating composers. If they wish to be really listened to and considered musicians and not curios, they must eliminate from programs the laughable and eccentric works which confuse the evening's purpose...