Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than three years, the village of Krestova in British Columbia's bleak, windswept Kootenay 'hills lay empty as a ghost town. Winter snows blanketed the black hulls of bathtubs, the skeletons of old beds, the charred frames of burnt-out houses. Wolves loped where the valleys once ran fat with cattle, and local ranchers gave the town a wide berth. Then, last week, life returned to Krestova (which in Russian means "City of the Cross"). A band of burly, hard-eyed men and women with thick Russian accents trickled back to the Kootenays. The Doukhobors were coming...
...before he began displaying his baby face onstage with a touring band called the Royal Peacocks around 1925. Dick Powell Jr., 15, could hit the road earlier. With his mother, June Allyson, a still wholesome but depressingly matronly 42, the lad was appearing in a comedy called Good-By, Ghost at Chicago's Pheasant Run Playhouse. The show is plain turkey, but Dick Jr. seemed to have all of his late father's spirited style...
...drama begins in the psychiatrist's villa, where the young man is easily persuaded to fall in love with a beautiful young woman who may or may not be a ghost. A few pages later she turns into the goddess Diana, and with her crescent bow and shining arrow slaughters a satyr who comes galloping along. All at once, the young man is captured by a troop of German soldiers and forced to witness the brutalization of some partisans they have captured. A little later, just as he is about to make love to the gorgeous ghost...
...news, with its limp watches, ovarian vegetables and chance encounters between sewing machines and umbrellas on dissecting tables. Last week, in what amounted to an unexpected revival, two practitioners of that sleight of art were back on the boards in Manhat tan, looking for all the world like the ghost of Christmas Past...
Jazz THE NEW WAVE IN JAZZ (Impulse!). Five combos, led by avant-garde Jazzmen John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Charles Tolliver, Grachan Moncur and Albert Ayler. "Trane" sets the stage by skywriting his personal hieroglyphics with his tenor sax. Even farther out is Saxophonist Ayler. His Holy Ghost consists of hysterical, sizzling squiggles of sound played fast and high, while a drummer beats insistently, as though knocking on a locked door. "It's about feelings," Ayler explains...