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...jazz critic, ubiquitous freelance and LIFE writer, the widely read gadfly went on to ramble polysyllabically about style, taste and whatever else he fancied in his Boston Herald and, later, Boston Globe columns. Proud of his image as a professional snob-he proclaimed the common man an "ill-clad, ill-spoken hooligan"-Frazier brought his own hot dogs to baseball games and named among his bêtes noires white socks ("Shoot 'em on sight. As bad as turtlenecks...
Brekekekex ko-äx ko-äx! As the famed croaking chant, the croaking chorus of the frogs in Aristophanes' comedy, sounds over Yale's Payne-Whitney Gym pool, it signifies that 21 young Yalies and New Haven townies skimpily clad in green fishnet tights are hitting the water. They fan out to the center of the pool and in a Busby Berkeley pinwheel formation circle the battered dinghy in which a wizened, whiskered Charon (Charles Levin) is poling across this Ivy League Styx. It is a moment of splashing good humor in this aquatic spoof...
...naysayers said they were concerned that a small turnout of women marchers, set visibly apart from a large body of women clad in armbands, would give an appearance of divisiveness to the women's protest...
Frustrations not withstanding, the Kuumbas are thrilling to watch as well as hear when 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...
...showgirl-songstress wife Dotty; and her psychiatrist lover, Sir Archibald Jumper, who is the vice chancellor and pragmatic villain of the college where George teaches. More bizarre companions include George's secretary, who likes to striptease while swinging by her teeth from a chandelier; a troupe of yellow-clad acrobats ("a mixture of the more philosophical members of the university gymnastics team and the more gymnastic members of the philosophy school"); and a corpse in a plastic bag named McFee...