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...even stranger flight of fancy is Berg's courtship of Libyan Strongman Gaddafi. Last spring, the Mo Letters began to talk about "godly socialism" and to describe Gaddafi as the savior who will ignite the young and rescue them from those twin sources of evil, godless Communism and American materialism. The Moslem leader, in return, has commended the C.O.G. on Libyan radio and has invited a son and daughter of Berg to visit him in Tripoli...
...compact and compelling semidocumentary. The reader meets the old and the young of the village, learns that much of the tribe's food is customarily spread with a kind of butter called gleena, made from slow-boiled candlefish, and is convinced that the elders mysteriously know whenever a stranger is coming. The Book of Common Prayer and Indian rituals reinforce each other as Mark helps the Kwakiutls transfer their tribal dead from a dilapidated tree-house burial site to newly hallowed ground...
SUNDAY: The Boston Stranger. 1968. The ABC network broadcast of this sensationalistic pseudo-documentary is being blacked-out in Boston by the local affiliate which is showing "The Comic" starring Dick Van Dyke. For real Tony Curtis freaks, channel 9 in Manchester, N.H., is sometimes accessible in Boston with an antenna. 8:30 p.m. Color...
...SUGAR-COATING for this polemic is some of the juiciest literary gossip to come out of the Bloomsbury boom, which seems to derive much of its momentum from the revelation, at well-spaced intervals, of its members' sexual habits. Bloomsbury, was, we know now, stranger than we could have imagined. Each month for the last year or so has brought a new book calculated to shock, titillate, and endear these brilliant perverts to out hearts. Lytton Strachey's fascination with the eroticism of the ear, John Maynard Keynes's penchant for the hand, and G. Lowes Dickinson's boot fetishism...
...Crimson has been no stranger to success in recent holiday tournaments with a pair of ECAC Christmas tournament wins in 1969 and 1970, and a sweep of the Great Lakes Invitational last year at Detroit. Unfortunately, the only recent loss came in the 1971 St. Louis event, as Wisconsin knocked off Harvard in the first round...