Word: chapters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...events in Africa today [March 13] are not a new chapter in human history, and any attempts to depict them as such are unjustified, egoistical and malicious. Why should Africa be expected to possess a magic wand that the rest of the world never...
...Arts and Government" chapter, Woodworth outlines (unfortunately, only briefly) a few of the modest bills on aid to the arts which have met Congressional apathy or hostility and urges their passage. He advocates expanding federally-backed musical performances to include college and conservatory musicians, with more emphasis on domestic programs instead of only "cultural exchange." Another proposal is a federal Department of Education and the Arts, splitting up the present Health, Education, and Welfare Department...
These ideas are not quite as controversial as the dust jacket suggests, but Woodworth should have included more detail about them, and omitted some of the trivia that fills up the rest of the book. Some trivia: a chapter cataloguing the well known abuses of music by restaurants, advertisers and radio stations, another offering unimportant comments about music in churches, and a third summarizing the trends of modern music and urging his readers to be curious about them...
...next-to-last chapter comments well on the role of a music critic ("a reporter, a teacher, a philosopher, and a champion of music in his community") but the illustrations Woodworth has chosen are such atrocious specimens of writing and reporting they nearly invalidate his points...
...power of the script; most of the cast is either bland or annoyingly energetic. `Louis Zorich gives a sporadically moving, but basically uninspired, performance as the step-father. When he confounds the Director by positing the elusiveness of human reality, he sounds more like a philosophy student reciting chapter and verse than a man whose very movement is tortured by the recollection of his lechery. Even in the early moments, when taunted by his step-daughter, Zorich seems overly calm and cold...