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...example of everything that is corrupt about folk singing, they always pick on the hapless Kingstons. First off, the trio has made as much as $30,000 a week, and this is unforgivably crude. Next, they smooth down, harmonize, and slicken the lyrics, embellishing the whole with gimcrack corn. But, carping aside, the Kingstons are accomplished entertainers, and many of their critics, Johnny-come-latelies to purity, forget that they probably would never have heard of folk music if they had not been first attracted by a heel-stomping ditty rendered by the Kingston Trio...
Proffitt lives near Beaver Dam Road in Watauga County, North Carolina. His voice is flat, coarse, aloof and unsentimental. Close your eyes and you can smell the corn mash in the still and see the heat waves over the road. Proffitt makes his own fretless banjos, cutting down hardwoods and killing groundhogs to get his materials. Years ago, he sang a song called Tom Dula for a visiting folk scholar. It was later recorded by the Kingston Trio as Tom Dooley. If any one event touched off the present folk boom in popular music, that was it. The Kingstons have...
...have adopted Mexican dress and language). Nicholas H. Acheson '63 analyzed the distinctions Zinacantacans use in classifying animals and birds (harmless/harmful; running/slithering; omening well/omening ill...). Matthew B Edel '62 undertook a history of the ejido land reform, and Allen Young, a senior at Columbia, studied the economics of corn marketing in San Cristobal...
...seen, Khrushchev at 68 is in good health, although there are always those rumors of a kidney ailment. His legendary political skill and common touch are unflagging; at the height of the Cuban crisis he managed to get off messages of congratulation to a dozen farmers (for their prize corn crops) and to a successful swineherd. To quiet any doubts about solidarity at the top, Khrushchev and the Party Presidium attended the theater one evening, a traditional display by Soviet party officials in time of crisis...
...strange mixture of whimsy and anguish. The Gleaner (see opposite page) could be merely a grim glimpse of an old peasant woman bending to her daily drudgery, but Underwood had a more cheerful inspiration. "What would a woman want to be doing gleaning ears of corn?" he asks. "She is picking up a man. Look at the text: 'And her hap was to light upon, a part of the field belonging to Boaz.' The work is meant to represent the plot laid down by nature for us all." Lifesection has this play of moods in reverse...