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Most important, once Charles broke the barrier between gospel and blues, the way was open for a whole cluster of ingredients to converge around an R & B core and form the potent, musical mix now known as soul?among them, in Critic Albert Goldman's words, "a racial ragbag of Delta blues, hillbilly strumming, gutbucket jazz, boogie-woogie piano, pop lyricism and storefront shouting...
...best-selling Poet John Betjeman, 55, to Associated Press Confessor Eddy Gilmore, "I used to wear modern things. But now I look at the best-dressed men and wear exactly the opposite." So crowing, the latter-day Victorian and crusading architectural antiquarian modeled the glory of his ragbag wardrobe: a morning suit originally made for U.S. Novelist Henry James -who died in, London 45 years ago. "It's wonderful to wear his clothes." beamed Fellow Author Betjeman. "I didn't need a single alteration. But I must confess that I feel a little unworthy." As if his radio...
...Ragbag. There are critics who argue that the buildings are so far apart that they lose all relationship to each other. Corbu replies that he designed it with the measure of man in mind. One unit of measurement was the distance that a man can walk in an hour. For the interiors, he used his mystifying modular-a personal improvisation on the ancient Greek Golden Section based on the harmonies of the human body. This is one Corbuism that even his admirers find difficult. Says Editor Banham of the British Architectural Review. "It is a ragbag of ideas...
...plan are the Ford Foundation's Dr. Alvin C. Eurich, former president of the State University of New York, and Rutgers President Lewis Webster Jones, until last month head of the University of Arkansas. Their program will substitute a four-year general college course for the ragbag collection of teachers' college curricula now in use. Students who plan to teach will learn their pedagogy after graduation, in one year of on-the-job study, at selected teachers' training centers. Only after their year of paid internship-working with pupils under the direction of "master teachers"-will they...
...with the Army (Paramount) was not much of a play on Broadway in 1949, but Scripter-Producer Fred F. Finklehoffe's film version shows that it could have been much worse. The training-camp farce now serves as a vehicle for Comics Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis and their ragbag of nightclub bits & pieces...