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Drama is far less emergent in Africa than the new nations themselves. The special gift of Nigeria's Wole Soyinka,* the continent's foremost black playwright, is to speak to Africans about Africa in the concrete context of today but with a keen residual sense of the past. He is emancipated without being alienated. Blending mock humor with flare-lit passion, he is both a satirist and a mythopoet...
...recovery showed that Suliotis has the temperament of a true diva. She has the vocal equipment too-power, range, a rich, natural voice and a keen instinct for drama-but at this stage of her career it is marred by an occasional lack of control, exaggerated effects and some forcing at both extremes of her range. Also, she may be gambling with her voice's future by singing taxing roles at such an early age. Still, such all-or-nothing assaults on the heights are in the spirit of Callas' own career, and the older soprano may have...
...less intellectual plane, the historian proves himself an unexpectedly useful guide. A keen appreciator of fine sherry, Toynbee tasted the wines of Mendoza in Argentina and found them to his liking: "So far as I have sampled them, every variety is good . . . They deserve to be drunk all over the world...
...without reason, as the artists themselves point out. Says Los Angeles Sculptor Edward Keinholz, whose own "environments" of Nevada brothels and backstairs abortion rooms have raised plenty of eyebrows: "In a culture as rich as ours, art gets bastardized. Pop artists had a keen thing going until they let the dealers in. As a result, the span of life for pop art has been cut in half." With hundreds of sec ond-rate artists now trying to cash in, Millionaire Collector John Powers warns: "It is easy to be deluded by camp followers. The public is buying...
...discovery that most remors involved bigotry--baseless reports that one minority group or another was not doing its part--prompted his keen interest in race relations. In 1944, he gave a course in minority group problems to Boston police captains; three years later he gave a similar course to Cambridge police officers. And again, shrugging off the notion that the subject was too "soft" for useful study, he began a systematic consideration of prejudice; it lead to the 1954 publication of this classic on the subject, The Nature of Prejudice...