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...takes pleasure from Taylor's sheer audacity. He does what all musicians at some point dream of doing: going on stage and banging on the piano with hands and fists, like a film technician simply searching for the neat sound effect. But as Taylor's recordings from the 1960s show, his music is much more profound than that...
...only Taylor's piano technique, but his stamina itself is astonishing by the 1960s. The mental stamina needed to keep a group together in a period when he couldn't possibly make a living playing his music is matched by the physical stamina of a true athlete: Taylor's all-out assaults on the piano have both arms moving at a rate of hundreds and hundreds of machinegun rounds per minute; and he solos for up to thirty minutes on a stretch. The volume and intensity level of these performances is not merely the result of turning an amplifier...
Taylor's unusual longevity in the jazz world (he is still performing today--and how!) has led to two and a half decades of high-level work since the ground-breaking years in the 1960s...
...Square rose to national prominence in the 1960s, as Western Cambridge became a hotbed of street entertainment, coffee houses and, of course, radical political activity...
Political apathy among college freshman has grown significantly since the 1960s, a new poll by the University of California-Los Angeles finds. Only 31.9 percent of all freshmen enrolled in classes in the fall semester of 1994 said that "keeping up with political affairs" is an important goal in life -- the lowest rate in the survey's history. The percentage of freshmen who said they often discuss political affairs also reached its lowest point, at 16 percent...