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...Fine Arts concentrator who is uneasy about the Nat Sci requirement wants a lower group course where there is some assurance he is not going to get torn to pieces," Wilcox said...
Marriage Revealed. Natalie Cole, 27, daughter of the late foggy-toned Balladeer Nat King Cole and a solid-gold pop-soul star in her own right; and Songwriter Marvin Yancy, 31, whom she met two years ago when he co-produced her first LP, Inseparable; both for the first time; in Chicago last July...
Executives at all three commercial TV networks immediately began looking for ways to cash in on the new interest in black history. Paul Monash, a CBS vice president, began dickering with Author William Styron for the TV rights to his 1967-68 bestseller, The Confessions of Nat Turner. Said Monash: "Part of Roots' brilliance was in the programming. ABC caused an explosion by compressing the presentation so that the drama had built-in impact. I never liked the format of one hour a week, as in Rich Man, Poor Man. Waiting a week dispels interest; waiting a day heightens interest...
...accurate is television's Roots as history? Novelist William Styron (The Confessions of Nat Turner) is harsher than most critics. Roots, he says, "is dishonest tripe. It took a crude mass-culture approach. It shows how dismally ignorant blacks and whites still are about slavery." As a number of critics have noted, there were, to start with, some errors of setting. Styron objects that "counties in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee which are as flat as Ping Pong paddles look as if they were shot on a back set used for horse operas with a background...
Bernard D. Davis '36, Lehman Professor of Bacterial Physiology, abandoned his plans to restrict Nat Sci 37, "Evolution, Genetics and Society," to 75 students after 240 people streamed into Burr "A." Davis said yesterday he will try to shift the course to a later time, when more teaching assistants will be available