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...there are about 20 well-known professional groups, like the Stars of Faith, singing for pay around the country and getting paid well. Such gospelers as Clara Ward and her Ward Singers, who tour in a custom-built lavender Chrysler, are taking the Word as far afield as nightclubs and the borscht circuit. Even the big record companies have begun to realize that gospel sells-chiefly, as one A. & R. man points out, because "gospel singing has the greatest concentration of exciting voices in the country." Although Clara Ward is a veteran queen of the gospelers, some fans think that...
...proved the key to its immense achievement. Sir Charles Petrie provides no such brief, brilliant survey as does G. M. Young's Victorian England. But if The Victorians' outlines are fairly wayward, its details are often engaging. And parts of it go farther than usual afield-to Victorian Ireland and Scotland, for example. Prostrated by the terrible famine of the '40s, Ireland became so needy that even the highborn stole food at the Lord Lieutenant's parties, while the people seethed and periodically struck out. Ireland, too, suffered from the Queen's neglect as Scotland...
...grim for the Renaissance, try it at 10, when Professor W.J. Kaiser gives his "Thought and Literature of the Renaissance" (Hum 115) whose reading list squeezes in Boccaccio, della Mirandola, and Castiglione in addition to the two Ms snagged by Gilmore. Ranging further afield, Professors Ingalls and Rowland are waiting to introduce the civilization of India--Asoka to Khrishna Menon--in their Soc Sci 116. If these countries fail to entice, Merle Fainsod, back at his old listening post, continues his love-hate relationship with the Soviet dictatorship (in Gov. 115); and Professor Homans continues his simple love affair with...
...well be proud of Dean McDermott's decision. He has al ready put over a rigorous "enrichment" program (since copied at Annapolis and West Point), in which more than three-fourths of the cadets slave for extra credit. He started a sabbatical program of sending instructors as far afield as Cambridge "to keep our staff up to date." He is pushing for a Master's program, the first at any service academy. Instead of congressional appointments, he wants a national competition to pick cadets (only the Coast Guard Academy does so). But most revealing is the eagerness...
...Canadian borders in summer, some Northerners have feared that their fruits and vegetables might carry diseases. The study found no evidence of this. Typhoid, the most communicable of such diseases, is virtually unknown. But tuberculosis is rampant, and migratory workers often have relapses while far afield. When they get back home, they appeal to one of the more than 3,000 curanderos...