PAIR EXTRAORDINAIRE Photo by cindy Boydstun
Duo Shared Bill With Cosby
Reaction: He Billcosbyed'
By CHRIS HOUGLUM
Of the Emerald
You’ve heard about the verb
“spiroagnew.” It means “to
botch up, but good.”
So, what’s the opposite of
“spiroagnew”? It’s “billcosby,”
i.e., "to succeed, and in aces,
yet.”
Bill Cosby, comedian extra
ordinaire and one-time award
winning television performer,
made a formal invasion of Mac
Court Friday night. As was
anticipated, he billcosbyed. He
was beautiful.
His success was due in large
part to the positive force of the
Cosby personality, of which the
Cosby brand of humor is incon
testably an extension.
There is not a hint of falsity
or pretension in either. No
nicely coined one-liners discard
ed easily from the well-oiled
machinery of a mental file. No
corrosive social comment de
signed to deliberately provoke
discomfiture or alienation.
Cosby’s specialty is, rather, a
humor of near-universal appeal,
one which draws upon the large
store of everyday experience
in which people have a common
bond. The nostalgic bent of
Cosby’s humor is enough to
point out this common denom
inator — the result is mass
identification with the perform
er.
And once this ultra-desirable
situation has been achieved, the
dazzling comedic spectrum of
Cosby’s genius is allowed to
Teacher Negotiations
Explored in Bulletin
“Teacher Negotiations in a
Militant Age," is the topic of a
recent bulletin published for
superintendents and school
boards by the Oregon School
Study Council at the Univer
sity.
The bulletin may be purchas
ed for $1 from t h c Oregon
School Study Council, 124 Ed
ucation, College of Education,
University of Oregon, Eugene,
Ore.
(Advert Isement)
nards of an ad that ran here re
cently for the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants.
The CPA people, after telling us
a bit about the profession, and why
It offers a rosy future for a college
man, offered to send interested
students a booklet with the whole
CPA story.
That part got left out of the ad.
There was just white space, star
ing up blankly at the reader. Dis
concerting. Phantasmal. Spooky.
The booklet, with the whole CPA
story, will be sent to you if you
write: Dept. A ll, AICPA, 666 Fifth
Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10019.
emerge.
This remarkable affinity mani
fests itself most completely in
Cosby’s marvelous sense of
timing, plus an ability to con
trol absolutely the pitch and
cadence of his voice — the re
sult is a remarkable range of
emotional shadings, together
with some astounding sound ef
fects.
Cosby is, further, an expert
pantomimist, who re-enacts his
own experiences rather than de
liver a flaccid monologue. In
this respect he is also expert.
His demonstration of how to
negotiate a turn during a 440
race is but one acrobatic trib
ute to his prowess in this re
gard.
Cosby shared Friday's bill
with the Pair Extraordinaire,
and the duo—Carl Craig on vo
cals and Marcus Hemphill on
bass — acquitted themselves
well, despite an atrocious sound
system.
Craig has a rich, exciting bari
tone which has considerable
range, while Hemphill is a nim
ble bassist who is strong on
style. Whether Hemphill’s im
provisations, many of which are
marvelous, were up to snuff
Friday night is a matter for
conjecture. I just couldn’t hear
well enough to be sure.
Group Evaluates PE Requirements
The ASUO Academics Com -
mittee will take a look into the
value of the physical education
requirements at the University
Tuesday, when they present a
hearing open to the public.
The hearing, to take place at
2:30 in the EMU, will consist
of a panel of faculty members
of both the men’s and women's
PE departments and represen
tatives of the Academic Com
mittee. After the panel has dis
cussed the PE requirements,
they will entertain comments
from anyone else who would
like to voice their opinions.
Sam Kinzer, speamng ior me
Academics Committee, said that
the committee feels that the
present fundamentals course in
PE covers what the physical ed
ucation program is all about
and the importance of physical
fitness to students.
It should be up to the stu
dent, Kinzer said, after taking
this one hour required course
for one term, if he wants to
take any more physical educa
tion classes.
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