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...music is no older than the century, and many of its fathers are still alive and playing. Painting and classical music progress sequentially, discarding earlier styles and forms in pursuit of the new (nobody, for example, paints like Giotto today, or composes like Haydn), but jazz continues to flower cumulatively, taking on and transforming the new without ever abandoning the old. It is a fugue with a life of its own, endlessly recapitulating itself. If its vitality dims from time to time under the onslaught of fads or sheer noise, jazz simply sits out a few sets, catches its breath...
...short man with a wide brow, a benign expression, and a mission that even the Indians have noticed. They call him Puc-puggy (the flower hunter). William Bartram is collecting and classifying America's plants and seeds. He sends the most interesting specimens, or his drawings of them, to John Fothergill, a botanist and physician in London who is paying Bartram's expenses plus ? 50 a year. What the current troubles between the Colonies and England will do to this arrangement is uncertain, though Bartram never gives politics a thought. He moves totally rapt in the world...
While the jugglers are the biggest draw among the street entertainers, there are plenty of others. Harvard Square is a living testament to the fact that the '60s are not quite behind us. While ex-flower children do not exactly abound, they are not difficult to find. Most depressing of all are the gang of hari krishna people who hang out in front of The Coop. All together now--ohmmmmmmm...
...most immediately striking aspect o Diaspora is the way it's put together. The dominant impression is one of spaciousness and particles (words, poems) emphasized by their well-planned isolation in white space. Poems flower out onto the pages, or waterfall down them, or squat like fertility goddesses statuesque against the white. Then too, illustrations recur at intervals never longer than four pages--illustrations mostly that caress the eye, or that sit back and wait to be scratched, or that just purr. Vicki Minnis '77 did Diaspora's cover of cavorting silhouettes, as well as two impressively simple, almost monumental...
Black's "Owl and Flower" also sets an instrumentalist on stage. The guitarist Keeset-tanamock strums for roughly the middle third of the piece. Huddled down, Black and John Hofstetter prance in circles, teasing one another. Black cuts unexpectedly to the outside of the circle, Hofstetter surprises herwith a flip over his shoulder. Black uses the same loose athletic style Gray called on in sections of "Passing Through" and Soll in bits of "Lunch Break...