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...MAIN stimulus for a rock group, however, remains the audience response it gets. In this respect too, Boston's crowds have come to be highly regarded. Typical was B. B. King's reaction of unbounded delight at his audience's warmth and appreciation when he was last at the Tea Party. People who know say that B.B., who is always expansive and easy to please, had never been so moved in his life...
...delight of armchair travelers and art historians alike, an Indian art expert and career diplomat named Madanjeet Singh has accomplished what other scholars could not. With official and sympathetic help from all the governments concerned, Singh made 35 treks into the remotest regions of the Himalayas. His book, Himalayan Art, has just been published by UNESCO, the first volume in its Art Books series. It contains a photographic record (see color opposite) that for the first time reveals Himalayan painting and sculpture in all its sequestered splendor...
...then there are the purely human moments which--white or black--would be a delight in any show. The most absorbing is a taped television interview with Mother Brown, born November 17, 1853, a Virginia slave, and now a Harlem resident. Her remarks on slavery, for example ("Sometimes people were nice t'ya, sometimes they weren't. Just like they are nowadays."), are representative, but only of a quite ordinary human being who, like us, is doing her best to comprehend the events through which we are all living. On the other end of the scale, there is a wonderful...
Kefta Lunch. "The hippies come here for the pot, of course," says a young visitor from New York-and indeed Morocco is a hashhead's delight. Kif, raw leaf marijuana, is openly (although illegally) sold for $4.50 a pound and widely smoked in public in clay pipes that can be bought for 100 a dozen in any souk, or shop. With or without the assistance of kif, Morocco is a delight. In winter, a venturesome visitor can swim in the morning off the beach at Essaouira on the Atlantic, lunch on kefta (skewered minced steak with herbs) in Marrakesh...
...plays and musicals are rather like bedtime stories for grownups. But they rarely resemble the fables, fairy tales and romances that one remembers as a special delight of being very, very young. A new musical called Celebration dwells in just that land of enchantment. It is a charmer for sophisticates who have never quite forsaken the magic realm of childhood...