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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are two sets of pilots flying the Biafra run, one English-speaking and the other French, and they are carefully segregated. The English-speaking flyers are housed in the dilapidated, mosquito-ridden Hôtel de la Rèsidence, run by a waspish French brunette named Jackie, whose sole virtue seems to be that she is able to count in English. Eighteen of the pilots are Rhodesian and South African, all clad in the uniform of the British colonial in Africa: highly polished shoes, long socks, neatly pressed shorts and starched bush jackets. Carefully holding themselves apart...
...reason why Sgt. Pepper should be a shackling precedent for whatever follows. But when the foursome meander from style to style without any apparent guiding objective or sense of urgency, they seem to be substituting synthetics for synthesis. Even their renewed interest in the song styles of the English music hall and rhythm and blues-one of the album's most attractive features-is slightly tainted. In the hollow Yer Blues or the sentimental While My Guitar Gently Weeps, the longing for roots is too calculated, like the urban sophisticate's nostalgia for the primitive...
...only became a bestseller but is still a standard college text. A man of many and varied talents, Hayakawa for five years wrote a column in Chicago's Negro newspaper, Defender, served as director of the Institute of Jazz Studies in New York, and taught English at the University of Chicago before he joined S.F. State's English department in 1955. He has taken outspoken stands on such diverse issues as all-digit telephone dialing (against), advertising ("venal poetry") and the 1964 Free Speech Movement at Berkeley (against). In a comment that clearly foretold his attitude toward dissenters...
...record note, however, that Brigitte Bardot stars in the film, and that she is still a glorious beauty and a first-rate actress. Her English accent never fails to interest and amuse, though unfortunately her dialogue is mostly along the lines of "I have no more cartridges," or "You wanted me last night, do you still want...
Some of your readers may be interested in the facts of the episode misreported in Jeffrey C. Alexander's article "Power at Harvard," in the CRIMSON of November 26. Dean Ford, in early October of this year, gave the English Department as much money as it requested for the zeroxing of students' writings in English C for the two terms of 1968-69. Morton W. Bloomfield Chairman, Department of English...