Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roof and walls caved in to illustrate lonesco's philosophy that life is absurd. Electrically powered kinetic sculpture by Len Lye and Nicolas Schoeffer moved, twisted, roared and thumped at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. All this and more galore was part of the two-week Buffalo Festival of the Arts Today, perhaps the most all-encompassing, hip, with-it, avant-garde presentation in the U.S. to date...
...Festival of the Arts Today was organized by the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, with the cooperation of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the State University of New York at Buffalo. Most of the money came from a foundation set up by Investment Banker Seymour Knox, 66, longtime avant-garde art angel. Some conservative-minded Buffalonians were indignant at spending tens of thousands of dollars to stage the "popping of balloons and manipulation of plumbing plungers...
...festival has served as a catalyst-and this is the essential thing, says Lukas Foss, conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic. "The entire city is talking about it-there are strong comments, pro and con. It is not important what we like or don't like. The question 'Is it art, or isn't it art?' is not as vital as the fact that it is here and we have to know it-this is informative...
...AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 5-6 p.m.). Cape buffalo hunting in Africa, perch fishing on the Nile, and geese shooting in Chesapeake Bay. Color...
...labor leaders (mostly white) in Salisbury's Unity House, was assailed by 50 farmers (all white) at an experimental farm south of Zambezi Escarpment. At an elephant barbecue on the shores of Lake Kariba, while maidens of the primitive Batonka tribe danced bare-breasted to the throb of buffalo-hide drums, Batonka Chief Binga attacked the African nationalists, adding with solemn African symbolism that "you cannot change a brown cow into a white...