Word: odetta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spock Conspiracy seems to have passed into that shadowy Pete Seeger-Odetta land of forgotten movements. I could barely remember what the issues were when I first picked up the book. To refresh your memory, the defendants: Dr. Benjamin Spock (whose baby book is the second-largest bestseller in the history of mankind if you are interested in superlatives like that); William Sloane Coffin. Jim Marcus Raskin; Michael Ferber; and Mitchell Goodman-were charged by the U. S. government with conspiracy to counsel, aid and abet resistance to the draft. They were tried in the Boston Federal District Court...
...mother and father (a cannery executive) are mildly astonished at her success, but also relieved. For a long time, she admits, they thought she was "a goner." By her own description, Janis in her Port Arthur days was a weirdo among fools. She painted, read poetry, and listened to Odetta and Leadbelly records. "Everybody else was going to drive-ins and drinking Cokes and talking about going across the tracks to go nigger knocking." At 18, she escaped to Los Angeles with her parents' dubious blessing and became a beatnik. Not a hippie. Janis explains the difference carefully. Hippies...
...gala reopening of Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., which has not seen a performance since April 14, 1865, when President Abraham Lincoln was shot there during a presentation of Our American Cousin. The invited audience will see Helen Hayes, Henry Fonda, Fredric March, Robert Ryan, Julie Harris, Odetta, Andy Williams, Harry Belafonte and others in performances keyed to Lincoln's love of the theater and the music...
...festival will feature big-name professionals (Jackie Washington, Odetta), local amateur groups such as the People's Theatre, and a number of films (Black Orpheus, Come Back Africa). But much of the entertainment will be provided by students of the Elma Lewis School, who will stage the Tempest, The Mikado, and a number of dance concerts...
...Matthew was one which no film of Joan's era had to deal with--the sound track. Pasolini gambled again, trying to match the implicit emotional values of his music to those of his images. He has permitted himself to range from Bach to Mozart to Prokoviev to Odetta to the Missa Luba to Leadbelly. Running head-on against our various stock responses, he inevitably creates image-sound discords. For me such discords arose between the healing of a leper and a cotton-field blues moan, between the infant Jesus and Odetta's annoyingly mannered "Sometimes I Feel Like...