Thursday, November 7, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
5
The rock hound Lipton star
By WILL HARDESTY
Ode records has a great new star in Peggy Lipton who displays her talents in an album entitled PEGGY LIPTON. The 21-year-old Miss Lipton shows an ability which is much advanced beyond the usual first album. Her singing is great. It displays a real feeling, depth and range. Her songs and the back-up are not harsh or loud. They are ballady, backgroundy and beautiful. She sings with the traditional qualities of a good female vocalist, but with an awakened sensitivity.
Her singing is enigmatic, and, it would appear, her singing might reflect what she is. She looks and sings like the girl next door, the All-American girl. Yet, she can look like a hip person and her songs are filled with much more depth and meaning than those of the All-American girl. The cover of the album shows the duality. The front shows her with a nice, high, ruffly, lacey collar, and her face en-wreathed by some sort of viney flora (ivy?). The back side of the album shows her with no collar at all and an Indian head-band. Somehow, you get the impression the head-bandy Peggy Lipton is the real one.
The album contains four songs of her own composition.
One of these tunes, "San Francisco Glide," and a Laura Nyro song, "Stoney End," have also been released on a single. Outstanding songs on the album include "Natural Woman" (in which Miss Lipton out-performs the queen of soul Aretha Franklin), "Hands Off the Man (Flim Flam Man)" (another Laura Nyro composition and the only real "mover" on the album), "It Might As Well Rain Until September," and "Let Me Pass By" (another of her own compositions).
NOTE: Remember The Blossoms—the three chicks who did the back-up singing on the old "Shindig" show? They do, and do well, the back-up on this album.
Folk fans should go berserk for THE CLANCY BROTHERS AND TOMMY MAKEM SING OF THE SEA by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem on Columbia.
The four Irish' singers are recognized as being right at the top in the folk field, as a dozen great albums attest. This one could be another winner for them. All the songs but one on the album are traditional sea chanties and songs. The liner notes, written by Pat Clancy, give little run-down about the songs.
The only problem, it seems, is that a real ear for this type of music is needed to appreciate it.
Paperback
THE WEST IN ASIA 1850-1914, by Micheal Edwardes (Capricorn, $1.65) A history of imperialism. The author considers the expansion of several nations into Asian territory -Spain, the Netherlands, Britain, Portugal, France, Russia and the United States. The Dutch played their major role in the East Indies, the French in Indochina, Russia in Siberia and Central Asia, the British in India. Edwardes deals with the westernization of Japan, the Sepoy Mutiny in India, the eventual impact of exploitation by the West on the peoples and governments of Asia.
Letter to the editor
Student infuriated about two hospitals
To the Editor:
I was so infuriated after reading your article entitled "Lawrence Memorial denies KU student" in the October 30 edition of the Kansan, that I had to write this letter to let some of the steam out.
This case, involving John Lindquist, was not the first refusal and it probably will not be the last. Just how seriously injured or ill must a KU student be to get help at Lawrence Hospital. If they do not consider a student with "the tendon sticking out of his hand and blood all over his pants and vomiting" severe enough for them to even look at, then what does it take to get them to lift a finger.
It is about time Lawrence Hospital officials realized how inadequate Watkins Hospital facilities are for 16,000 students, or for that matter, even for one student. So where is a sick KU student suppose to go
for help. Is he supposed to sit in an overcrowded waiting room for two hours waiting for his turn on the assembly line to see a doctor. Even if you get to see a doctor, you really cannot feel certain that what the doctor's diagnosis of your case is valid. I know of five cases where a doctor told a girl she was pregnant when she really had an ulcer. And another case when a person was told he had a pulled muscle on his side and the next morning he was rushed to a Kansas City hospital for an emergency appendectomy.
This all leads back to the unanswered question: where is a sick KU student to go for
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medical help. Watkins is not the answer and certainly Lawrence Hospital could not possibly think of helping.
This question will remain unanswered until Watkins finally gets some competent doctors and enough of them to serve KU's large enrollment
and also until it gets enough modern equipment.
Isn't it about time Watkins shaped up before KU students are shipped out...on stretchers.
Thank you for listening,
Julie Boutross
Leawood junior