Word: buckskins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bumplcins in Buckskin. As international expositions go, HemisFair is a minifair, only slightly larger than Seattle's Century 21 but only one-tenth the size of Montreal's Expo '67, the alltime giant. As a result, the exposition is "manageable in human terms," says HemisFair's chief designer, Allison Peery, meaning that all the exhibits are within easy walking distance. On the elevated "people expressway," no point is more than a ten-minute walk from any other, and for variety there are flower-bedecked barges plying the canals, a minimonorail, and that familiar world...
...Death in the American Novel (1960), in which Fied ler argued that the peculiar kink in American literature was an obsession with death; and that, in turn, inhibited a mature approach to heterosexual themes. As a result, literature fastened on a sublimated homosexual ideal, a kind of interracial buckskin-buddy system of innocent dreamers, running toward what Huck Finn called "the terri tory ahead." Actually, Fiedler said, the dreamers were fleeing from women...
They come onstage like three hippies and an undertaker's assistant: a blond-mustached leader who looks like a young General Custer in buckskin and beads, a guitarist wrapped in a double-breasted blue jacket and a pageboy haircut, a woolly thatched drummer who appears to be wearing an entire rummage sale-and a gaunt, somber bassist in black mufti. What is more, their music is as motley as their garb. The blues jostle with Bartok. Country and western blurs into flamenco. Rock blares through misty impressionism...
...Freddie fled, to $70,500 for the Omukama of Bunyoro. Obote has confiscated, however, most of the splendid trappings of royalty. He sent a dump truck to cart off the Omugabe of Ankole's throne, his velvet ceremonial robes, his gilt crowns and his fat royal drums of buckskin. Last week the aging, potbellied Omukama of Bunyoro watched sadly as his regalia of silken robes and black ostrich-feather headdresses were taken away to be mothballed in the basement of a government building. With baggage packed, he now waits to move out of his palace to quarters that will...
...cabin in New Year, Mont., a ghost town where, according to one of their songs, "the people are wild and the coyotes are tame." Their only food was wild game that Beers hunted in the mountains. When possible, they stuffed their 150-lb. psaltery, dulcimer, fiddles, banjos, guitars, buckskin drums and camping equipment into and on top of their Volkswagen and toured the mountain towns and country fairs. Then, when the fad for folk singing mushroomed in the late 1950s, everyone was suddenly stuck on the psaltery...