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...TRIALS OF BROTHER JERO and THE STRONG BREED. Wole Soyinka, the foremost black African playwright, is being detained in a Nigerian jail, but his two one-acters have traveled well to Manhattan. Brother Jero, played with finesse by Harold Scott, is a delightful spoof of the self-declared prophets who hold ceremonies for their "customers" on the beach. The Strong Breed is more of a myth-play, delving into the realm of tribal taboos with the tale of a stranger who becomes a village's sacrificial scapegoat...
Some of the more militant of the civil rights organizations, while still refusing to go all the way with the violent breed of Black Power advocates, take a stand that is a considerable distance from that of the older organizations' leaders. "Black Power," says Floyd McKissick of the Congress of Racial Equality, "is the control of black people exerted in order to bring about change and execute their own self-determination. Like in the schools-to hell with bussing kids. Improve the school system where...
...longest--and many think best--college sports season opens at Watson Rink tonight when the Harvard hockey team faces off against the St. Nicholas Hockey Club of New York. For the records, tonight's contest is only an exhibition, but for the breed of ice addicts it will be the long-awaited debut of the first Crimson powerhouse since Gene Kinasewich graduated four years...
...TRIALS OF BROTHER JERO and THE STRONG BREED. Wole Soyinka, the foremost black African playwright, is being detained in a Nigerian jail, but his two one-acters have traveled well to Manhattan. Brother Jero, played with finesse by Harold Scot, is a delightful spoof of the self-declared prophets who hold ceremonies for their "customers" on the beach. The Strong Breed is more of a myth-play, delving into the realm of tribal taboos with the tale of a stranger who becomes a village's sacrificial scapegoat...
...like Manhattan's Paramount, playing for dancing at spots like the Glen Island Casino in New Rochelle, N.Y., echoing over the radio networks every night from hotel ballrooms across the U.S. All that has been relegated to memory-and to the big-band buffs. These are the forlorn breed of fanatics who can not only instantly identify Artie Shaw's 1940 recording of Stardust but can even name the trumpet and trombone soloists on it (Billy Butterfield and Jack Jenney), and who thrive as much on nonmusical nostalgia as on genuine musical connoisseurship...