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...makeup. Last week, Bravo and one of his Angeleno protégés, Valley State College Historian Julian Nava, 39, were making the first major effort to alter that situation. Running with Bravo's backing for the nonpartisan school board, Nava-the son of an indigent harp maker and winner of a Bravo scholarship loan to finish Harvard-was coursing the city in his green Volkswagen in a catalytic campaign against Incumbent Charles Reed Smoot, who has alienated the city's minorities by publicly opposing textbooks with added chapters on minority groups' contributions to America...
Victim No. 1 is a wealthy widow (Anna Quayle) who consoles herself by bawling the Kashmiri Song ("Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar/ Whom do you lead on Rapture's roadway far?") while she somehow makes her harp sound like a bedspring banged with a coal scuttle. Before long teeny Tony, her stepson and heir, just can't face the music. So he runs a wire from his toy-train set to the frame of the harp, transforming it into a colossal toaster that does stepmother up brown...
These conservatives, then, stick to the present. They harp on the pitfalls of the Great Society and offer immediate, if virtually inviable solutions. And in 1966 their liberal opposition has been weak, if not hopelessly divided...
...orchestra, under Fausto Cleva, played well; everything, from harp glissandos to threatening bass growls, was audible. Even the claque sounded good from the back of the house. (The choreography for the "Dance of the Hours" was not quite up to Folies-Bergere standards, but who had come to see pirouettes...
Typical of the new bluesmen is Mississippi-born Junior Wells, 31, who was raised in Memphis and moved to Chicago when he was twelve. As he tells it, his musical career was launched when he was arrested for stealing a $2 "harp" (harmonica) that a pawnbroker refused to sell him for $1.50; the judge listened to a sample of his playing, then gave the pawnbroker the other 50? and dismissed the case. Blues, says Junior, "gets in my whole body, my whole soul. It knocks me out. It kills me. If I couldn't do that, I wouldn...