Word: mojo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Local Color (Mose Allison Trio; Prestige). Pianist-Composer Mose Allison grew up in a dusty, crossroads Mississippi town, and this album tells a lot about it. The selections-Carnival, Mojo Woman, Crepuscular Air-have an engaging funky, blues-flavored quality, abetted by some light and witty Allison solo flights on the piano. Among the most successful is a swinging, wryly humorous ballad about a misunderstood wife-slayer at "the Parchman Farm" who passes his time "puttin' that cotton in a 'leven foot sack/With a 12-gauge shotgun at [his] back...
...Pancha Shila-"five principles of coexistence." Then the Communists pushed the well-intentioned to the back of the stage and took over. "It's all very confusing," murmured one of Mrs. Nehru's friends. One by one, Communist speakers rode roughshod over the U.S. Kuo Mojo, one of Peking's loudest guns, vowed that Peking will not rest until it has conquered Formosa from the Nationalists. "It is a part of China just as Long Island is a part of the U.S.," he said...
...Bamboo Curtain fell harshly last week on a century of American good works in China. Red China's Vice Chairman of the State Administration Council Kuo Mojo charged: ". . . American imperialism has, over a long period, placed special emphasis on ... cultural aggression in China...