Word: mra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HUGH MASEKELA IS ALIVE AND WELL AT THE WHISKEY (Universal City). The doughty South African expatriate trumpeter mixes jazz and rock with a generous quotient of his native folk music. Vistas of the veld spill out of his trumpet in Mra and from his scratchy singing voice in Ha Lese Le Di Khanna, a cattle-herding song. Little Miss Sweetness leans on the rock side. The most infectious track is Up Up and Away, which Masekela rescues from the TWA commercial and instills with a zestful buoyancy...
...armament, we feel that our purposes and activities were severely misrepresented in the CRIMSON. Demonstrations are difficult to control, and we wish to go on record as disassociating ourselves from those who treated the concert as a joke. The fact that we distributed a serious, responsible leaflet criticizing MRA was ignored, and we are not certain that the CRIMSON read it. One of us was instrumental in getting the YD's and YR's to present a disclaimer. Regrettably, mention of this was also omitted...
...hope that at least our response will have prevented MRA from using a mere appearance at an institution as an ostensible endorsement by it or any of its organizations--a device this group is fond...
...personally, as one who is in no great sympathy with MRA, that he was certainly one of the best liked and respected members of his class. I think Mr. Glassman should be ashamed of this shoddy performance. Marsh H. McCall Jr. '60 Instructor in Classics
...What these underprivileged countries need are revolutionary Americans who go in there and say: 'We understand Marx and Communism. We understand you. We've got a far bigger plan for you and your country, and we've got the discipline to see you achieve it.'" (Peter Howard in MRA: What...