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...engaging way with his lines and songs-which is only natural, since he writes some of each. (One of his earlier songwriting efforts, Never Can Say Goodbye, earned a gold record for the Jackson Five in December.) One of 15 children born to a Baptist preacher, Davis grew up outside of Boston, once cleaned hamburger stands for a living and, like Moore, got his acting start in a Broadway chorus. At 26, he is a star of Broadway's Two Gentlemen of Verona...
...puzzlement over his evolution from "Blowin' in the Wind" to "Lay Lady Lay" can be alleviated through an openminded listening to the music. The early songs, no matter how inspirational to the liberal conscience, represent a fairly immature psychological stage. Dylan willingly casts himself in the role of preacher or moralizing adult, a man with the answers who wished them to be heeded. He was able to do this extraordinarily well because his protests were articulate, often beautiful, and in tune with what many Americans liked to tell themselves they believed...
...past ten years at West Junior High School in Waterloo, Iowa, Alice Margaret Hayes, 67, has been reading the story Little Brown Koko and the Preacher's Watermelon to her speech and drama class. When black students began busing to the school three years ago, Mrs. Hayes was always careful to ask if any objected, recognizing the stereotype that the title implies...
...most fascinating part of the film, however, shows Malcolm's development from star preacher for Elijah Muhammad to independent political figure. The transformation is told in newsreel footage that still holds the power to singe the conscience. We see Malcolm on street corners, fervently laying down the Black Muslim gospel of mumbo-jumbo racism, castigating the "palefaces" and "white devils" and attracting the angriest, most disaffected of blacks with his unyielding insistence on racial pride. Then we watch a rift develop between Malcolm and Elijah, a break that began with Malcolm as part of his political growth...
...Donn Eisele traded his NASA desk job for the directorship of the Peace Corps in Thailand. In August, Ed Mitchell, who staged an ESP experiment aboard Apollo 14, will leave the space program to pursue his intense interest in psychic phenomena. Apollo 15 Astronaut Jim Irwin, a Baptist lay preacher, will also retire, "to spend more time spreading the good news of Jesus Christ...