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...field in one place or another since 1755. There was one where Washington Square is today; there was one where the New York Public Library now stands. Since 1869 the cemetery for the indigent has been on Hart Island, 101 acres of goldenrod, Queen Anne's lace, sumac, broom sedge, oak and willow. At one time the island was also home to a prison. In another time there was a drug rehabilitation center here. Neither is in operation any more, and the red brick buildings now resemble what one imagines would be left after the bomb. Creepers embellish...
...remembers the hospitality of the countryside, the farmers in their fruit groves forcing a stranger to accept gifts of grapes and white figs and apples and pears. He remembers the magnificent village breakfasts of arak, kebab, grilled liver, tomatoes, yogurt, onions, eggs fried in pottery pans and flavored with sumac...
...change all that, N.C.C. offers 23 courses in the Navajo language, history and culture. Students learn from Indian teachers how to shape clay without a wheel, sew moccasins with sheep sinews or shape baskets with sumac fibers. Andrew Natonabah is one of four medicine men who teach Navajo psychology, medicine, dances and tribal lore, and who often cure mentally disturbed students "by dancing them free of evil spirits." Says he: "When they leave here, our students understand more about their culture and are better prepared to meet the white man's world...
With the proper schooling early on, Cleo's superb natural voice could have carried her into an operatic or lieder career. Smoky and sinuous in its middle range, it leaps effortlessly between octaves (sometimes going as high as an Yma Sumac "super F" above high C). Sometimes it skitters exhilaratingly around its bright upper reaches, then makes darting swallow-like swoops into the dark, resonant chest-tone regions of a Marilyn Home...
Working one's way through college is an honored part of the American dream. But generations and mores change. Most students in need may still wait tables in the student union or type theses on "The Eight-Octave Range in Yrna Sumac's Work," but not all, not all. Consider this report from TIME Correspondent David DeVoss in Detroit...