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...amazing that in 1967 some white men and women are still trying to persuade black Africans to abandon their religious beliefs and worship instead a blond and blue-eyed Jesus-the same Jesus whom the Ku Klux Klan and other racists in the U.S. and Britain and the apartheid white minorities of South Africa and Rhodesia worship; the same Jesus in whose name Jews have been persecuted in the West for ten centuries and 6,000,000 Jews were gassed in Germany only 25 years ago. For more than three centuries, Christianity has ministered to the American Negro...
...love of overstuffed furniture (one possible source of inspiration: late night replays on TV of the '30s movies) and the bright chrome chairs, tables and settees initiated by such Bauhaus architect-designers as Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe; there was even a revival of the laminated blond wood chairs made popular by Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto in the 1940s. What made the trend significant is that such furniture comes not from the avantgarde, relatively low-volume makers such as Knoll Associates and Herman Miller, but from mass manufacturers...
...molded plywood chair and matching otto man (Directional Industries, $280) instantly recall Aalto, for example, but the sausage-shaped arms and headrest owe more to Le Corbusier. Hans Eichenberger's tubular framed sofa (Sten-dig, $1,000) is a relatively straightforward, clean-lined exercise in the Miesian idiom. Blond wood was back in Edward Wormley's new line for Dunbar, which features ash in everything from storage carts that open up for dining ($560) to toadstool-shaped tables ($248) and benches...
...Teen Idols Sonny & Cher invented folk rock there and, at the same time, set off the craze for ruffled bellbottoms. The Strip became the perfect place for flaunting rebellion, for catching the latest underground movie at the Cinematheque and for trying on the newest fads, from pressed-straight blond hair and granny glasses to surfers' crosses, military coats and giant gilt earrings...
Audiences watch and listen agog as the big, blond, open-shirted Siberian submits to the passion of his verse and rolls a voice like an organ through the packed halls...