Ivan Duz, professor of Philology at the University of Odessa, presents Vancouver alderman Bruce Eriksen with a gift at a reception hosted by the Canada-USSR Association Feb. 27. Duz was one of four Ukrainian scholars visiting Vancouver, including Igor Dzeverin, director of the Kiev Institute of Literature; Petro Konanenko, a. professor of languages; and Boris Olynyk, Poet laureate of the Ukarine.

ere as part of an academic ®xchange program, the group Spent considerable time at UBC where the also spoke to Students on disarmament 'Ssues. They also met with city Council and discussed future ®xchanges with the city of Odessa.

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Astanding ovation and two cur- tain calls went to veteran topical Singer Tom Paxton at the Queen

beth Playhouse in Vancouver Sunday,

The American singer-songwriter

Whose career spans more than 20

years moved the audience of Several hundred from laughter to hushed silence and back again in the time-honored tradition that has become his hallmark, providing a Successful kickoff for the first of

year’s concerts from Ash Street Productions.

€ concert was billed as ‘“Tom Paxton sings for Peace,” and was used to promote the upcoming walk for peace on Apr. 23, spon- Sored by the End the Arms Race

committee. Last year Ash Street Tom

drew 3,000 to hear Pete Seeger sing for disarmament.

Paxton proved to be a fitting Choice for this year’s concert, and Not only because of his years of ser- Vice writing and singing against un- Popular wars and social injustice. Paxton also can be said to be one of

er’s ‘children,’ part of a Movement of topical singers of the Post-war generation that helped a 8TOwing anti-war protest change Public opinion in the Sixties and beyond.

Paxton (I) called out local singers Charlotte Diamond and Doug

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Stewart for encore at concert for peace Sunday.

Perhaps more than any of his contemporaries — Bob Dylan, or the late Phil Ochs — Paxton has the ability to move audiences through warmth and humor in the Seeger mode.

Paxton himself paid tribute to Seeger when he encouraged the au- dience to join in singing along. Be | know if Pete was here,:he’d have you divided up into groups singing harmony, and you’d be doing a

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verse in Swahili,’ he said, to ap- preciative laughter.

“¥ can see Pete’s been here — you're already trained,” he quip- ped, after people joined in singing one of Paxton’s well-known tunes.

Standards such as “‘Last thing on my mind,” “Rambling boy” and ‘‘I can’t help but wonder where I’m bound’ were performed for the benefit of all those who knew Paxton the singer from his earlier days. But Paxton has not allowed himself to rest on his earlier laurels, and Sunday’s concert provided a forum for many later songs, in- cluding some that are to be released on upcoming albums.

His newer material ranged from a witty treatment of one man’s neurotic impulse to solve the Rubik’s Cube through a biting satire on Nancy Reagan’s defence of personal firearms to a celebra- tion of a new “bomb” which, when dropped, turns ‘‘tanks”’ into butter’? and ‘‘grenades into flowers.”

Paxton also showed his serious side, with evocative melodies such as ‘Whose garden was this?” about the aftermath of a nuclear holacaust.

Paxton has undergone several

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changes since his introduction to the Greenwhich Village folk music scene in 1963. His first albums were marked by strong statements of protest against corporate profiteer- ing and the Vietnam War, in- terspersed with humorous observa- tions on American society’s many pitfalls. Later albums were more introspective, and Paxton’s career and stature waned during the mid Seventies.

He has become known again in the Eighties, singing at many benefits for the nuclear freeze movement and other peace ac- tivities in the United States, but he disclaims formal connection with any organization.

“1’m not involved in the peace movement in a day-to-day way — I’m primarily a songwriter and an entertainer. But obviously, I sup- port it in a big way,” Paxton told the Tribune in a brief interview after the concert.

In recent years some of Paxton’s work has shown traces of a kind of mysticism. One recent composition sung at Sunday’s concert praises a rest retreat for victims of the strife in Northern Ireland as a mecca to which one can find a resolution to personal problems. In this ap- proach Paxton effectively equates warfare with personal rather than political discord, a notion reinforc- ed by the line, ‘‘let there be peace, and let it begin with me.”’

But the Tom Paxton of the Eighties has also penned songs such as “I’m changing my name to Chrysler’ a satiric comment on government subsidies to private corporations. And his perfor- mances at peace benefits show him to be a fitting spokesman for the cause of disarmament.

Paxton’s set was preceded by the duet of Charlotte Diamond and Doug Stewart, two members of the Ash Street company who played a

‘tight set of quiet songs with close- knit harmonies. They joined Pax- ton on his first encore, singing a moving. rendition of ‘‘Strangest dream.”’

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