Word: soul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SOUL (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). The producers of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, George Schlatter and Ed Friendly, have more irreverence and irrelevance in store in this all-black musical variety special; stars include Lou Rawls, George Kirby and Nipsey Russell...
What seems to attract young people nowadays is Hesse's preoccupation with Eastern mysticism and his soul-racked characters, who suffer from that now common malaise of the under-30 generation, the identity crisis. Not far from the Berkeley campus, a favorite hangout is a beer joint called Steppenwolf, so named by its original owner (Max Scherr) because that novel symbolizes the loneliness of the intellectual. At Harvard, where Hesse's books sell better than any of his contemporaries except Faulkner, Senior Joel Kramer says: "Reading him is a gut, emotional experience." Adds Harvard Graduate Student Mark Granovetter...
...action or often just sit on the high platforms that are a permanent fixture upstage. Leading this group is Lorraine Serabian (the tall dark singer of the first scene), whose gutsy voice is essential to the show's feeling of life projected directly from the soul with no stops along the way. Often Prince uses her and her companions to move along the action, as when black-frocked women chanting a low lament about "the crow" before Hortense's death scene become ravaging parasites themselves at the scene's end, even before their victim finishes her last gasps...
Cleaver, author of Soul on Ice, is also a lecturer at an experimental course at the University of California at Berkeley. That appointment has been opposed by conservative forces in California, who denounced Cleaver's criminal record and lack of formal qualifications...
...dispense with the apologias; the abuse I've received over a somewhat less-than-perceptive Harvard-Bucknell pick has purified and agitated my soul...