Poet Harrison reads Thursday
Keith Harrison, assistant professor at Charleton College, will read his poetry, at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union. Harrison was originally to have appeared Oct. 28.
Harrison, whose first book was entitled "Points in a Journey," was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1932. In 1957, he went to England where he spent eight years as free-lance writer and teacher.
Harrison, who received his B.A. at the University of Melbourne and his M.A. from the University of Iowa, wrote for such publications as "The Atlantic Monthly," "The Spector" and "The Observer." He has read his poetry on the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) Third Programme, on the Australian Broadcasting
Commission and over University networks in the United States.
His awards include the Massefield Prize for Poetry from the University of Melbourne and a Canada Council Research Grant for work on Australian literature.
Harrison served as tutor at the University of London and as a visiting poet and graduate assistant at the University of Iowa. At York University in Toronto, he lectured for the Department of English and first went to Charleston in 1968 as a visiting assistant professor.
He performed his works at the Edinburgh Festival; Commonwealth Arts Festival, London; City Hall in Toronto; and University of Queensland, in addition to the universities where he studied or taught.
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By MIKE SHEARER Arts & Reviews Editor
And everybody SHOULD be talking. Harry Nilsson (best known for his "Everybody's Talkin," from "Midnight Cowboy," is the singer on a total of three wonderful, varied albums, and he is the songwriter behind many of his vocal sensations.
His first Victor album, "Pandemonium Shadow Show" features six of his own songs and his medley of 11 Beatles songs.
His second album, "Aerial Ballet," is an even greater achievement. On this album, Nilsson sings his "Everybody's Talkin'" hit and such songs as "Little Cowboy," "Mr. Tinker," "Mr. Richland's Favorite Songs" and "Good Old Desk." Taking no pains to escape nostalgia, Nilsson uses everything from his voice to pure hokum to create splendor.
On his third album, "Harry," Nilsson takes another batch of pleasant songs ("Nobody Cares About the Railroad Anymore," "Mournin' Glory Road," "Mr. Bojangles" and "Simon A Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear"—among others) and goes a long way with them. This album was critically acclaimed as Nilson's best, and its depth certainly ranks it well above most albums by male vocalists.
Nilsson's voice is distinctive. Somehow, he has avoided sounding like either Tom Jones or Bob Dylan (both of whom have many carbon copies).
It's unfortunate, to an extent, that everyone wants to know who a singer "is as good as," to whom can he be compared? Quality-wise, I would compare Nilsson to the greatest male singers of the decade—Dylan, Donovan and Tom Jones. But he is as distinctive from these three as they are from each other. He is a sure winner.
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Jose Feliciano's "10 to 23" is a must for Feliciano fans. "Lady Madonna," "The Windmills, of Your Mind" and "Hey Jude" are among the hits which Jose has put into his own style. His rendition of "Hey Jude" is one of the better non-Beatles performances of last year's biggest hit. He has also included a relative oldie—"Miss Otis Regrets"—which deserves the talent he has devoted to it, and Jose makes you wonder just how many other songs are in mothballs when they should be sung alongside our greater modern ballads.
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Qualities known only to a play of the Restoration period can be found in "The Country Wife" by William Wycherley. The play opens in University Theatre Wednesday and runs through Dec. 14.
"We are trying not only to do the play itself, but have the actors represent the restoration period," said Jack T. Brooking, director and professor of speech and drama.
To accomplish this, actors sit between the audience and the stage to form a Restoration audience dressing and acting like the audiences of the time.
Part of this action results from Orange Girls milling through the aisles selling oranges.
Action takes place in the aisles as a way of linking the play and the audience.
Oranges can be bought and delivered for 25 cents and notes can be written to someone in the cast or audience and delivered for 10 cents. Purchasers may haggle with the girls over the price in an attempt to reduce the cost.
"We want the audience to participate in the play as the audience of the time did," said Brooking. "People in the Restoration period not only went to see the play but also to meet friends and to gossip."
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"We want the audience to leave their inhibitions at home and participate in the whole show," said Brooking.
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