Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ENDERBY, by Anthony Burgess. In this retouching of an earlier portrait of the artist as a middle-aged gasbag, the gifted English novelist combines the elements of entertainment and enlightenment with uncommon artistry...
...Catholic mother, wife, lover, therapist, chauffeur, social worker, comforter, healer, organizer, charity worker, cook, gardener, laundress, carpenter, secretary, messenger, nurse, artist, interior decorator, landscaper and homemaker, rhythm has wrought me babies, frustration, anger, frigidity, sorrow, incompatibility, bitchery, unhappiness, disillusionment, dissatisfaction, discontent, bitterness, instability and more babies...
...author attempts a parallel but fails to sustain it. But Sillitoe is himself obviously more at home in Algeria and its stark alternatives than in the equivocal uncertainties of the sybaritic world of his Lincolnshire artist...
Each night's concert had high points and some performances are particularly worthy of note. Such was Richie Havens' performance Thursday night and it served to salvage what began as a complete disaster. Havens is an artist of great power and he brought the audience to its feet with "Run, Shaker Life," a spiritual which rocked the tired and irritated thousands. Havens was also to introduce Jerry Merrick, the author of "Follow," a song which he had made known; and Jerry played with rare simplicity and delicacy...
...Friday night Arlo Guthrie was outstanding, and there can no longer be any doubt that Arlo knows other "songs" besides "Alice's Restaurant." Arlo is an artist who is incredibly witty and imaginative and although his raps are somewhat reminiscent of Jack Elliot's, he is a great story teller in his own right and is evolving a form that provides tremendous freedom. Arlo is also an excellent musician, and that fact is somehow reassuring or at least worthy of admiration...