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...traditional, rousing "Trad Reels," whichhas no words at all, is surely the highlight ofthe album. But if you're looking for tradition,why not go for the real thing...
...Front (UDF), an umbrella coalition including most anti-apartheid groups in South Africa, refused to participate in the Indaba, just as it refused to participate in elections for the triracial parliament. So did the Azanian People's Organization (APACO), a smaller anti-apartheid group, and the Congressof South African Trad Unions (COSATU), the largestnonracial labor federation. Undoubtedly, theirresponse was colored by dislike for Buthelezi,whose strong-armed followers are notorious forbrutal attacks on Black opponents. (13) The ANC,being illegal under the current regime, was notinvited, but it is as vehemently opposed to theprocess as the UDF, COSATU or AZAPO...
Gregg, McKay, Knight & McKay, a pension boutique based in Avon, Conn., earned about 38% last year on $244 mil lion invested in fledgling firms, many of them high-technology ventures. Says Roy McKay, 40, one of the partners: "We are trying to be investors rather than trad ers. That's how the great families made money in the past. There's an electronic revolution going on, and it's generating vast opportunities for the creation of wealth...
...LONDON HIPSTERS had temporarily lost their way in 1962. The American rockers--Chuck Berry. Little Richard and Co.--had faded; the Chicago blues of Muddy Waters mysteriously had never caught on. The Beatles hadn't broken yet. "Trad" (traditional) jazz was what the middle class dudes convinced themselves they enjoyed. It was a mushy, updated version of Dixieland, believe it or not--very dull, very smooth. "Trad" didn't suite Mick Jagger or his friends Keith Richards and Brian Jones...
...Liberal-Who Is a Conservative?" provides a useful guide to the semantic bedlam. Most of the 64 contributing intellectuals were once content to call themselves liberal. Now they fastidiously invoke qualifiers. They speak of early and late liberals, paleoliberals, center extremists, tough-minded liberals, of "rad-libs" and "trad-libs...