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Centuries of customs have changed in just decades. In the 1940s and '50s, radio brought the music of the outside world to much of Africa for the first time. In the 1970s, audiocassettes made it possible for Third World musicians to disseminate their own music quickly, cheaply and profitably. Acts like the Congo's Papa Wemba became continent-wide superstars...
Beyond those planned events, it is the spontaneous eruptions of interest that are most gratifying to the freshman advocates at Appalachian. Jeffrey Grubbs, 18, a freshman from Charlotte, says that he rarely reads for pleasure but tore through this summer's assignment, savoring the rich evocation of 1940s Louisiana. "It's just drenched in setting," he marvels. One evening after the formal book discussion, he persuaded some visiting friends to give the book a try. As the school year begins, Appalachian has its freshmen on the same page--and spreading the word...
DIED. JANE GREER, 76, alluring film-noir star from the 1940s; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Greer, who was briefly married to singer Rudy Vallee, was discovered by Howard Hughes. ("He was obsessed with me," she later said.) When Greer married her second husband, Hughes reduced her film work for his studio. Greer starred as a femme fatale opposite Robert Mitchum in the 1947 film Out of the Past--and, nearly four decades later, in the remake, Against All Odds...
...film Cry Freedom; in Sutton, England. When Biko died in police custody in 1977, Woods wrote a scathing editorial blaming the government, was banned from writing and fled to exile in England where he published a biography of Biko. DIED. FRED HOYLE, 86, controversial astrophysicist who in the 1940s coined the term "big bang" to deride the theory that an explosion formed the origin of the universe, a concept now widely accepted over his "steady state" theory, which maintains the universe has no beginning or end; in Bournemouth, England. DIED. OSCAR JANIGER, 83, psychiatrist whose experiences on LSD inspired...
DIED. JORGE AMADO, 88, celebrated Brazilian writer whose 32 books were translated into some 50 languages; in Salvador, Brazil. His early novels, which often took swipes at Brazilian politicians, landed the author in prison and exile in the 1940s. Years later, his bawdier novels, Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (1958) and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1966), were turned into movies...