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...says, all of its musical elements came largely from Africa. Here and there he explores an intriguing historical byway, as in his study of the influence that New Orleans opera performances had on the ragtime and blues of Creole Composer Jelly Roll Morton. And he even unearths an occasional gee-whiz oddity, such as the fact that one of the first authentic white Dixieland bands was led by Jimmy Durante...
...Princeton describes the theology of violence as a "resurgence of Utopianism," since it is predicated on the belief that "the establishment has no political justification as long as there is injustice." Warns Harvard's Potter: "You haven't solved the moral problem when you say, 'Gee, I wish the underdogs would...
...consistent!" Adds another: "Boris says he won't believe it till he hears L.B.J. deny it." In one skit, Rowan interviews Moses as he demonstrates against the pharaoh, who is "discriminating against us just because we've got long hair, beards and wear sandals." Rowan: "Gee, I can't imagine anyone feeling that way. How is it going?" Moses: "Badly! The pharaoh says it's O.K. to dissent so long as you don't disagree with him. It's hard to argue with a man who thinks he's descended from God." Rowan...
...gee! Ho-gee!" All that is expectable - indeed, part and parcel of a game that puts knives on grown men's feet and clubs in their hands and sends them out to do battle on that most inhospitable of mediums: ice. No one knows precisely when the first hockey game-field or ice-was played. The enameled design on a 14th century French cruet shows figures playing a game with sticks and a stone or ball, and there are historians who claim that the field variety originated in ancient Greece or Persia. The actual name hockey was born...
...meeting place will often as not be one of some 300 "home headquarters"-private dwellings like the white clapboard crackerbox of University of New Hampshire Professor Glendon Gee in Somersworth (pop. 8,900), where Romney last week whizzed in for a 40-minute foray...