Word: sabe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be a mistake to consider all of these programs classics - even of nostalgia. Radio drama was never with out deep and regrettable flaws. Homilies passed for wisdom; exposition could be ungainly. Caricature and stereotypes were the order of the broadcasting day, from Tonto's "Kemo Sabe" to the caricature of black servants on almost every soap opera. Still, radio drama, like its heroes, tended to be greater than any of its faults. If it was naive, it was no more than the reflection of a simpler epoch. If it was repetitious, it allowed each listener to color...
...Indian is spicing his protest with a grim kind of humor. His slogans proclaim: KEMO SABE MEANS HONKY, RED POWER!, and CUSTER HAD IT COMING. More stingingly, Indian Folk Singer Buffy Sainte-Marie, a Cree with a degree in education and Oriental philosophy, confronts white audiences with pointed lyrics...