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...undergraduate student in the mid-1960s,Georgi says his master in Eliot House, John H.Finley '25, was a paragon of leadership--devotinga great deal of personal attention to students andmemorizing each resident's name...
When Werner Erhard (born John Paul Rosenberg) founded Erhard Seminars Training, Inc. in 1971, the former used-car salesman from Philadelphia had a hook. Born of the theater-of-the-absurd atmosphere of the late 1960s, est (Latin for "it is") promised to help people get "it," whatever "it" was. Erhard's 60-hour seminars were strenuous ordeals, complete with "body catchers" and barf bags for the weak of mind and stomach. Trainers applauded bladder control and cursed those who didn't get it. Still, Erhard and his message proved popular, even winning celebrity advocates. Then, after two decades...
Haden's contributions to many landmark albums of jazz, most notably those of innovative saxophonist Ornette Coleman in the 1960s, prompted the series of tribute concerts from which these recordings are culled. The eight concerts, given in 1989 in Montreal, featured Haden playing with many prominent musical colleagues. These marked the third and fourth releases; two performances from the series were released a few years ago, and more may be yet to come...
Semmel's class spends time on the increasinglyimportant pop music of post-war Britain, from therelatively wholesome "Teddy Boy" rock stars of the1950s, to the mods and rockers of the 1960s andthe punks of the 1970s...
Holton says the journal is always at the forefront of intellectual thought and discourse. In the 1960s, the academy published two successive issues on the state of blacks in the U.S. titled "The Negro American," which "no foundation dared to support," Holton says. However, these Daedalus issues managed to carry an introduction by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson...