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...Eloquent Sermon. It all started a year ago, when the easy charm of bossa nova had been drowned in a din of bongo drums, maracas and raucous studio bands. Getz met with Singer-Guitarist Joāo Gilberto, Brazil's "pope of the bossa nova," and decided to cut one "true" bossa nova album. Gilberto's wife Astrud, who had never sung outside the kitchen before, was enlisted as an afterthought to sing the English lyrics to The Girl from Ipanema that Joāo sang in Portuguese. This spring, when it was felt that the odor...
Most of the melodies are provided by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazil's leading bossa nova composer, who also backs up the lead duo with sensitive piano playing. The result is an eloquent sermon on what the bossa nova was originally all about. The relaxed, almost flat vocal styling of Joāo sounds as if he were whispering in your ear, and it is exquisitely embroidered by the ethereal solos of Getz's lyrical tenor...
Arnold Nash, professor of religion at the University of North Carolina, said in a baccalaureate sermon at Vanderbilt University that graduates should "view the universe as an ordered place with a purpose," not see life as "just one damn thing after another." But Vanderbilt Chancellor Alexander Heard, making the commencement address there, saw a world in revolt, "a world running wild with no place for minds standing still." Chicago Advertising Executive Lee King, at Northwestern, said that "our deadly malady is a disappearing supply of the creative resource," while at Pomona Ambassador (to Mexico) Fulton Freeman saw students "coming into...
...needling one another and everybody else, the Volkswagen men bumble through Brooklyn, pulling at a bottle of whisky, stopping at intermittent bars, where they are worsted by all the local Cyclops and Circes. Finally, they barge into the funeral parlor, snort, giggle and guffaw over the rabbi's sermon-obviously they knew Leslie so much better than the rabbi ever did. They file past the bier, peer in -whoops, the cadaver is not Leslie. Wrong funeral parlor...
Nearly four years later, President Conant's tone had changed but not his message. In the Baccalaureate sermon he urged '39 to "resist the tumult of the moment, the impact of the immediate present, the corrosive atmosphere of potential strife," and develop their own talents and personalities. At the UT Mickey Rooney was featured in the title role of "Huckleberry Finn...