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Main Course: Sex. Inevitably, the novelty wore off, and jaded Villagers began to drift away. But the word was too catchy to let go, and happenings have since been steadily spreading uptown and out from New York as the newest novelty in party giving and fund raising. Society matrons talk glibly of happenings over cocktails; actors who have never seen one are beginning to stage them. Whereas the first happenings were planned down to the last syllable and step (one Kaprow script read: "Walks to within 3 ft. of person seated opposite, stops here for seven seconds"), the latter...
PETULA CLARK: THE WORLD'S GREATEST INTERNATIONAL HITS (Warner). The Downtown darling of the younger generation smoothly shifts gears and heads uptown, where the ballad lovers live, picking her wistful way through ethnic pop favorites like Volare, Girl From Ipanerna and Never on Sunday. The beat is still tricky enough to please the youngsters, although they might balk at her slow version of Britain's second national anthem- I Want to Hold Your Hand...
John Kennedy spoke of "patches of poverty"-and indeed, the poor tend to be concentrated. In Chicago the poor are the winos of skid row, the aged pensioners and beatniks of West Madison Street and the hillbillies of the "uptown area," a middle-class neighborhood only a decade ago. Virtually every city has its Negro slums: Detroit's Brewster, Chicago's West Garfield Park, Las Vegas' West Side and Los Angeles' now notorious Watts. The rural poor cluster in the picturesque Appalachians and the Ozarks, on the Louisiana-Texas coastal plain, in the southern Piedmont...
Rock 'n' roll lyrics have lately taken on urban socioeconomic themes. In the Crystals' Uptown, downtown is a place where a man "don't get no breaks" and "everyone's his boss, and he's lost in an angry land." But to hear Petula Clark on the subject, Downtown is an island of promise...
...part, Chuck Berry is going neither uptown nor downtown, just slightly commercial, and doing well at it. One of the great lowdown blues singers, Berry, 38, now is talking "teen feel," as in his No Particular Place...