Word: watusi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...television industry seems to have the notion on occasion that it is a tribe of electronic Watusi. too tall to recognize anyone but giants. At award time each spring, the critics bow before Hope, proclaim faith in Dinah, show charity toward Sullivan. Last week the Peabody Awards committee changed TV scripture by singling out a cheery and engaging local show for one of its top awards. Shown only over Chicago's independent WGN-TV (Mon., 7:30-8 p.m.), The Blue Fairy in little more than a year captured Chicago youngsters without a struggle; now it has recognition...
Bach to Balinese. It plays anything from Bach to esoteric jazz. There have been concerts on the Royal Watusi drums, and by the Balinese Gamelan Orchestra. Drama ranges from Eumenides to Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, poetry readings from Robert Frost to Allen (Howl) Ginsberg, lecturers from former Amherst President Alexander Meiklejohn to Alan Watts, expert on Zen Buddhism. Once a week Russian Specialist William Mandel reports for 15 minutes on what Russians are being told by their newspapers and magazines. No cause is too controversial to get a hearing. Example: KPFA gave air time to Congressman Robert Condon to defend himself...
Another arresting sight: a primitive duel, staged for the story's climax, between contenders for the rule of the seven-foot-tall Watusi of Ruanda-Urundi, a remarkably aristocratic tribe with features that seem to come straight from the ancient Pharaohs. The Watusi's longtime slaves, the Buhutus, also help Africa steal the show from Hollywood. Before the duel is fought, they throw themselves into a long, exotically graceful dance that far outstrips any choreography ever put into one of MGM's musicals. For moviegoers who don't have much hope of making a visit...