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Died. William Buehler Seabrook, 59, explorer-author who raised readers' hair and eyebrows with his adventures among Haitian voodoo worshipers and African cannibals (The Magic Island, Jungle Ways), once detailed his stay in a mental hospital where he went to be cured of alcoholism (Asylum); by his own hand (overdose of sleeping pills-see MEDICINE); in Rhinebeck...
...artists proved that there is a worthwhile U.S. Negro art. The canvases were strongly flavored with expressionism and romanticism, but most had a primitive quality peculiarly their own. Painted in savage splashes of purple, red, black and brown, many contained writhing, weaving forms which suggested the rhythm of a voodoo ritual. Favorite subject matter: Negroes. Favorite theme: racial consciousness and antagonism. Some outstanding samples...
Horacio Guimares, a workman, lived in the village of Nilopolis,an hour's ride from Rio de Janeiro. Next door lived Ricardina Rosario da Silva, "Mae de Santo" (High Priestess) of a fetishistic, voodoo-like cult which Brazilians call "Macumba." Pious worshipers filled Ricardina's yard, clapped and stomped, chanted and sang, screamed and shouted outside Horacio's door...
Dealing with the rivalry between the godly Baptists, the paganlike Pilgrims, Run Little Chillun climaxes Act I with orgiastic Pilgrim rites by moonlight, Act II with a pandemonious Baptist revival meeting. At both gatherings everybody sings like mad, but the voodoo-haunted Pilgrims' chorus is no match for the well-harmonized hysterics of the yea-sayers...
Born. To William Buehler Seabrook, 57, writer on voodoo, cannibalism and himself (Witchcraft, Jungle Ways, No Hiding Place), and Constance Kuhr Seabrook, 31, his third wife: a son, William Kuhr, 7 lb. 3 oz.; in Rhinebeck...