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Phenix of Columbia-a onetime Quaker turned Presbyterian, an Army chaplain turned meteorologist, a physicist turned reverend, appears equally confused about the technique inherent in leading children to avoid "a gnawing sense of meaninglessness" in their adult lives...
Died. The Most Reverend Francis Patrick Keough, D.D., 70, unassuming, cigar-smoking 11th Archbishop of Baltimore (the U.S.'s first Roman Catholic see), an Irish immigrant's son who served for 7 years as administrative board chairman of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, was known as "Archbishop of the poor" for his lifelong ministrations to orphans and the aged; of complications following a stroke; in Washington...
...release the last recording sessions of Big Bill Broonzy on three single albums. A big voice, a big guitar, and a big rhythm often serve to hide a lack of feeling in a blues singer, but here they serve only to enhance an already powerful emotive force. The Reverend Gary Davis, blind "street singer," has a new release on the Prestige Bluesville label, which is a total gas because the man plays guitar like nobody's business. Folks-Lyric, has released a series of discs made by blues singers at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. (The Penitentiary has since...
Hearing the Reverend Gary Davis at Eliot House Tuesday night was a fascinating experience. One of the last of the street singers, Davis performs with an honesty that is becoming rare in folk singing. It was good to hear many of the old blues songs sung the way they were meant to be performed. In this age of the commercial and souped-up folk song, one easily forgets how the originals used to sound...
Nevertheless, Davis won a tremendous ovation of appreciation. The applause was a fitting tribute to vibrant musician and a person of great courage. The reverend Gary Davis, now a struggling Harlem resident, is blind...