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After two lightweight choruses by Carlos Chavez, the program concluded with Irving Fine's Design for October. The music was decadent but rather sweet, and Philip Frohnmayer's mellow tenor voice was perfect for the solo part. All in all, an excellent half-concert...
...coast, Salvador, Brazil's oldest and fifth largest city (850,000 people) is the quintessence of African Brazil, a mellow, languorous city of rich, luminous colors that smells of dende oil, coconut milk and malagueta pepper and resounds to the throaty, metal-stringed strum of the African berimbau. To the north, once-sleepy Belem has turned into a throbbing mainstream of the Amazon's economic life, thanks to the highway linking it to Brasilia. In the remote Amazon city of Manaus, Brazil's fabled old turn-of-the-century rubber capital, life moves almost as languidly...
State of Mind. In San Francisco's psychedelphic Haight-Ashbury section, Top Banana Larry Starin, 26, has even opened the Mellow Yellow Co. to sell half-ounce portions of baked banana scrapings-enough, he says, for 35 to 40 joints-for $5 (the cost to Starin: less than 5? for each half-ounce). Starin plans to give away the "worthless" banana meat to underfed Haight hippies...
...might, under combustion, trigger genuine physiological effects. It is far more likely that any high produced by bananas is imaginary, another indication that, given a receptive state of mind, it is possible to turn on with practically anything-or virtually nothing. Witness the fact that some undergraduates, dissatisfied with mellow yellow, are already beginning to tout the high potentiality of yet another new ingredient: spider webs...
...From British Folk-Rock Singer Donovan's Mellow Yellow: "Electrical banana is gonna be a sudden craze. Electrical banana is bound to be the very next phase. They call it mellow yellow (quite rightly) . . ." Donovan insists that his song has no hidden meaning, but seekers found one anyway...