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Last Friday night Joan Baez and Eric von Schmidt sang folk songs in Agassiz Theater, under the aegis of the Harvard Liberal Union. Young Liberals hoping to hear even one "song of social protest" were disappointed, for the program was arranged under the widely-held and peculiar assumption that everything sung by a folk singer (even essentially conservative songs like many of the ones Miss Baez sings) partake in some way of the yeasty liberal mythos...
...Eric von Schmidt is somewhat furrier than Miss Baez, and he sings differently, too. He sings old Leadbelly songs, Negro blues stuff, with a slow heavy beat, and effectively repititious chord patterns. His songs are humorous and his guitar technique dazzling (a technique which includes the use of a Hayes-Bickford knife to produce at points an odd sort of tone) and his general savoir-faire entirely compensates for the fact that, like many male folk singers, his voice sounds much like Jack Benny's Rochester...
...meeting opened against a background of Castro-incited unrest, as 400 raging demonstrators tried futilely to charge the hall. Next day the ranking critic of the U.S., Brazilian Delegation Chief Augusto Frederico Schmidt, led off by charging that the Eisenhower plan-which is devoted to such social objectives as low-cost housing, improved education, land reform-is not enough. Schmidt, Brazil's gruff businessman-poet, is the man who devised Brazil's Operation Pan American, a much more grandiose idea. Said he: "We cannot eliminate the old enemies of this hemisphere with temporary tactics." Was $500 million...
...sacrifice of fundamental freedoms. We must bring fresh hope to the less privileged, help them to replace a hovel with a home, to acquire ownership of land." The Eisenhower plan is only "a first step. We expect to continue our support with new funds." He spoke directly to Schmidt's fears: The new social reform program is "in addition to, and not in substitution for, assistance for basic economic and industrial development...
Blocking the Cubans. By the end of the second day, Ecuador called for a Latin American vote of thanks to the U.S. Oldtime Critic Schmidt joined in: "Brazil is grateful to the U.S." Dillon walked around the meeting table in Bogota's Military Club, seized Schmidt in a back-patting hug as delegates applauded...