Word: choiring
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...reporter goes back to his seat. It's the third night for Jobriath and his lead-in act, Sweet Pie; the Performance Center is half full. The stage is set with lucite/chrome drums, a piano, and various microphones. Stage-rear--for no apparant reason at all--stand three plaster choir boys, cherubic and smiling. The lights 'dim, and a body walks on. It's a man dressed in a morning coat, sandles, sunglasses, hat, and G-string. Period. Sweet Pie holds up an "Ike/Nixon '54" button: "This just shows there were things queerer than me a long time...
...Britain's University of Warwick, recently discovered that friends were giving their ten-year-old son a sleeping tablet because the youngster was too restless and exhausted to go to sleep even at 11 p.m. The boy had to do two hours of homework every night, attended choir practice until 9:30 p.m. twice a week, and also went to school on Saturday mornings...
...which was as folksy as Fulbright's was cerebral. Bumpers assiduously cultivated his image as the candidate of the common man, the same fellow who had gone on camp-outs with the Boy Scouts, served on the school board and, with his mellifluous baritone, led the Methodist Church choir back home in Charleston...
During spring vacation break this year the Kuumbas went South and entertained in Atlanta, Georgia; Lynchburg, Virginia; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Washington, D.C. and Chapel Hill, N.C., the locations of schools whose choirs usually make sojourns North to display their talent at schools like Harvard. The choir has also toured the Midwest the past two years, drawing raves from college and church audiences...
...they are onstage. In last week's performance at Burden Hall at the Business school the singers captivated a crowd of over 300 people. Clad in a flowing white choral robe and white slacks, and topped by his shiny black Afro, Ingraham and the dashiki and and Afro-garbed choir exuded a contagious joy and enthusiasm in their singing. The audience forgot its own troubles for three hours and stood up and clapped and chanted and shouted amen and hallelujah with the Kuumbas. Despite the hard work, lack of support and other problems, Walters's evaluation of the group...