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...FESTIVAL. In "The Five Faces of Jazz, Newport 1967," Host Herbie Mann traces the origin of Middle and Near Eastern music with the help of his quintet, then turns the stage over to African Drummer Olatunji, Brazilian Guitarist Luis Henrique and Hungarian Guitarist Gábor Szabo-all demonstrating the form's roots and reverberations in other musical cultures...
...reverse-there has to be intellectual integrity behind the move." Although Texas has fewer than 200 Negro students, a petition for a Negro history course drew 1,800 student signers. The course will be taught by Sociologist-Historian Henry Allen Bullock. He intends to examine the Negro's origin in Africa and the clashes of African and European cultures, study the impact of the slave trade on the Caribbean and the U.S. South, and trace the development of segregation...
Dispute rages among both press and campaign staff members about the origin of the name, "Hoosier," but reliable sources in the metropolitan Indianapolis area say that the word originated on snowy nights in pioneer Indiana. Tired travelers wandering their way West would knock on the doors of isolated log cabins, and from the inside a friendly pioneer would ask in his nascent midwestern twang, "Who's there...
William Appleman Williams, professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, will speak on "The Origin of American Imperialism" at 8 p.m. tonight at 2 Divinity Avenue...
Surrounding The Bald Soprano are two lesser creations, one camp and one original. The former, Kenneth Koch's George Washington Crossing the Delaware, recites the story of this lackluster incident in history with a super-patriotic relish, thereby mocking the origin and purpose of this country. While the actors, under the direction of Gary Byrne, do not often look at each other and usually smile or pause to forewarn the audience of a punch line, quite a bit of Koch's zaniness gets through. At one point. Terrence McNally, as the title character, heroically informs his soldiers, "We have nothing...