Word: custered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They come onstage like three hippies and an undertaker's assistant: a blond-mustached leader who looks like a young General Custer in buckskin and beads, a guitarist wrapped in a double-breasted blue jacket and a pageboy haircut, a woolly thatched drummer who appears to be wearing an entire rummage sale-and a gaunt, somber bassist in black mufti. What is more, their music is as motley as their garb. The blues jostle with Bartok. Country and western blurs into flamenco. Rock blares through misty impressionism...
...polished vibes approach that was based on the flowing style of the Modern Jazz Quartet's Milt Jackson, but he still felt that his musical personality was as neatly buttoned down as his collar. So he went on his own, decked himself out in the Custer buckskins, and literally let his hair down. "I felt I should get my personality across to people," he says. "All short haircuts look the same, but no two long ones...
...Indian man at a Phoenix school. But a white teacher was full of answers, such as "There are ten sociological variables which influence why Indian students become dropouts." Yet, Wakefield found grounds for hope. An Indian militant was distributing cards demanding "Red Power" and bumper stickers with the slogan: "Custer Died for Your Sins." Subliminal Triumph. Everywhere on Wakefield's journey, the organization men-whom he may over-villainize-seemed to be winning. Even what is apparently spontaneous turns out to be organized-subliminally. Last summer's ghetto riots, for instance. Black Power was not the culprit...
...year when the networks examine new-season schedules, take pulses, shake out the weaklings, and bring on shows that they hope will survive. Fatalities so far among the new programs: CBS's Dundee and the Culhane, NBC's Maya and Accidental Family, and ABC's Hondo, Custer, Iron Horse and F. Lee Bailey's Good Company. The biggest surprise is NBC's decision to dump the 3½-year-old Man from U.N.C.L.E. after Jan. 15; the Nielsen rating had dropped from No. 3 in June 1966 to 68th last week. Among new shows coming...
...refusal to accept the fact that the Chinese Communists wt:e massing for their invasion. "This wholly human failing of discounting or ignoring all unwelcome facts," writes Ridgway wryly, "seemed developed beyond the average in MacArthur's nature." He adds: "I cannot help drawing a parallel with Custer's behavior at the Little Big Horn, when the commander's overriding belief that he alone was right closed his mind to all counsel...