12 - THE CAP.OUNA TIMES SAT.. JULY 9. 1fi77 wheels who fought in the Vietnam poignancy, Ron recalls his Iqzz I am your yankee doodle War." --The New York Times ; physically and psycholog- ".lay UpTJClzzis, : ' Book Review "fV ' into dandy "ically agonizing your john wayne come - American society and,"every-da- y DISABLED VIETNAM home ". an honest, unre- life." Slowly, we see a Composcr-Porfcznc- To fire- the new Ron Kovic ir VET POWERFULLY RE- your fourth of jury fined account' of begin to with the a ' ' . l ' "',.V t ,f t CALLS AGONIES OF cracker author's struggle emerge - man shaped not ..?.''. f I -- WAR IN "BORN ON THE exploding In the, grave American dream." The only by rage and pain but by sense FOURTH OF JULY Washington Post his of kinship with V ". the most personal and other Vietnam Veterans. Join DuliQ a remarkable book "Born on the Fourth faculty I am the living death honest testament published "... will memorial on thus far by. any young man . powerful, moving . of July" speaks for the ex- ' A Fellow in the. day . Mary Lou Williams - Guggenheim tell the a lot of periences of the ' country generation - - musical . comtmsition: Miss want A jazz pianist, composer and things it may not, to that grew up in the fifties Williams holds doc- I been ; honorary hear but afford not to." and sixties - the from arranger 7 has appointed boys to the music at Duke toral ; degrees in humane -- Cleveland Plain Dealer working-clas- s i and lower -- faculty I letters , or fine arts from .. middle-class homes who be- University. ' several colleges . and univer- has the One of the tew jazz "... seldom dirty lieved in the American dream sities,1 and has been awarded of modern war been and went war pioneers still active, Miss story to to protect it. numerous for . com- Williams won national recog- grants told with more force and Desperately, Ron tried to and nition in the heyday of the position public feeling ... a reader will not make some sense of it all, to mances of her works. ' . big bands through her musical .. forget it. ." --Los Angeles find some meaning in the in- She has . association with such bands-- never studied in Times sanity called war. In the a formal learned men as Andy Kirk, Tommy sense, having t(f-.r- "A book that is painful book's cli- 1 v powerful, tragic and piano as a child from her to read but too powerful to max, the author makes his Jimmy Dorsey, Benny TV Louis mother. As a teenager, she One of the strongest moments of the pre- ignore" (Publishers Weekly), strongest statement about Goodman, Armstrong sentation of Alex Haley's "Roots" was the sear- "Born on the Fourth of war and what it does to and Duke Ellington. in his book of Pittsburgh, Pa., and soon a white slave master touches human beings as he con- Ellington, ing scene, showing lashing July" (July, $155) said moved on to work with some the back of Kunta Kinte in an effort make him our innermost sensibilities. It cludes, "All I could feel was "Music Is My Mistress," to of Miss Williams that her of the great bandsmen. ; his name was is Ron Kovic's extraordianry, the worthlessness of dying A musical say Toby. here .."writing and performances devoutly per- It powerful and critically right in this place at this Miss Williams "Jazz made me recall how the Reverend Jesse have always been a little son, says, acclaimed account of a high moment for nothing." is is -- Jackson and stylist Roberta Flack acted in ahead . her music soulful, it interpretive song school athlete who enlisted Excerpted in "Playboy", ; retaining concert Robinson a standards a way of praying. when they eulogized Jackie in the Marines to fervently "Born on the Fourth of and maintaining "I Told That It Is of that is timeless " "It's been created but of through that old spiritual Jesus fight for his country, only to July" also won the Maga- quality Miss Williams will come' its creators' experiences, their . All Right To Change My Name." be shipped back disabled, zine's Best Essay Award for 1 ?; anguish, their and How time to from the chest 1976. It is the winner an i to Duke Sept. with the title hopes many of you have taken the paralyzed of successes. As it was born of remember Jackie Robinson? Well, it was down. Overseas Press Club Citation "Artist in'' Residence in Jazz thirty Studies." the early American black Born July 4, 1946, Ron for 1976, a :i 1976 Christo- CARMEN BALTHROPremamAeri that as a child she , years ago when Jackie Robinson accepted the Duke music chairman1 people, jazz is the only true was one of the "war babies," phers' Award, and' two sang everywhere in school glee clu bsr in church de- lashes of White hatred that came through' name Frank P. Tirro says Miss American art form," she growing up in Massapequa, awards for 1976 from the choirs, in the bathroom at home. Now at 29, she Is a calling, threatening letters, flying spikes, speed- Williams will be an clares. Long Island, where his dad American Library Associa- rising professional. Miss Balthrop emerged from the ' teaching balls his ' Of her more than 350 : ing fast thrown at head. And the lonely worked in an A&P. He lived tion. :.hr;:- of introduction; to jazz course, black neighborhoods Washington to the twin 1975 ' ' the feeling of being part of a team and yet not being out an "Bom on the Fourth of of the role in Scott which surveys the musical, compositions, perhaps boyhood accomplishments singing title and most acclaim is her "Mass able to in the same hotel with his team- on the fields of his will be a motion s and audi-pictu- re esthetic, sociological stay playing July" major Joplin opera, "Treemonisha," winning the for Peace", first He the kid next historical aspects of jazz, and performed mates. town. was starring Al Pacino. tions for the New York Metropolitan Opera. (UPl). in new York's like loved a course in jazz improvisa- Holy Family It wasn't easy, of course, for a fighter door who God, Mickey Church near the United tion. - Jackie to turn the other cheek. To take a non- Mantle, and John Kennedy; 1 Additionally, she. will Nations Plaza. , violent the slugger who hit a home Her approach. ; Lou's run his first time at bat in direct the activities of. the "Mary So can he was in up Jefferson's Star Aims For Career Mass," done in an actual you say strong. Plenty strong the Little The Song Duke Jazz Ensemble and will alter Leagues. kid, ' the the sense he set aside an ego trip to try and , continue her performances liturgy by composer who at 21, received a spine-shatteri- in Cathedral an attitude. Damon Evans satis-- his talents as a member of the with Evans. Within the next j, the , St. Patrick's in ingrained bullet injury that isn't ; throughout country - few she Tirro New York in 1975, is another Jackie Robinson accepted and absorbed set him in a wheelchair -- field withjust being the co- rock musical, "Hair." months expects to during holiday periods, star Jefferson" TV' Six land him a lucrative record- said. well known work. She has re- humilities, heartaches, and hurt because he was permanently. of "The years ago Broadway show and a success him such contract and line Las Lou Williams is corded for more than three determined to prove that, if given a real oppor- Idealistic, and enjoying glimpsed ,in plays' ing up "Mary patriotic as Me dates. one the few other dozen studies. ful career. His life's , ambii "The Nobody Knows,", Vegas nightclub of women, tunity. Black people could compete and work heady with a desire to win, Critic Dan tion is to be a ' "Lost In The Stars," "Jesus "Already, she's given me than singers, who have been Morgenstern, with whites on an basis. Ron went to fight for his topnotch singer archivist equal the confidence that long-standin- g at Rutgers America in Vietnam and of record, concert and nights Christ, Superstar" and "Hello every able io crash the What can you say about a man like' Jackie was while should have in what has University's Institute of Jazz found it much more diffi- club fame. Dolly." It with performer barrier of been a all-ma- Studios sums Robinson who a lifetime things "Don't Bother I Can't himself if he's to reach the le world of up Mary Lou spends making cult to become a hero than he , Not that he's ungrateful Me, the jazz' little better for his brothers? for the fame that's come his that he was snatched he said. "For the first Tirro said. Williams, in these words, ever imagined in his boyhood Cope" top," I can he was friend. as a man of 25. for the "Jeffersons" role. time in my professional life "Duke is indeed "Sparkling, inventive and say, my dreams, Movingly, he as- way young can ' Rut he iust can't tame that Now is his third I can work with a person who fortunate to have her on its masterly at the keyboard, So you. ascribes the grimVand, dirty ! year fre inside to on this show, appreciates my artistic poten- music at a time when (she) is a master musician So. Jet's say thank you to a real brother and events - how he .and 'his burning whisper toprated faculty a' those soft Damon his role as tial.