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...spiritual happening that occurs when the musicians are in tune with themselves and one another. "I'm an instant person," explains Trumpeter Cherry with gentle bluntness. "When something goes through me I want to be able to express it." What Cecil Taylor wants to express is often something akin to the presence of the Almighty. "In the West, God is to be bowed down to. But really, God is an energy that goes through you and lifts the performer into a higher plane than he could ordinarily achieve...
Dizzy's remarks were sadly akin to those of baseball's most recent 30-game winner and reigning righthander, Detroit's Denny McLain, presently under indefinite suspension for investing in a bookmaking operation. "My biggest crime is stupidity," said McLain. No doubt. But the sorry truth remains that in less than two weeks, two of baseball's greatest players cast black shadows on the national game-and on all professional athletics...
...this season's N.H.L. All-Star Game, Tony was the only Black Hawk elected to the East division team. For a goalie to win that honor in his first full season of N.H.L. play (he appeared in 13 games for the Montreal Canadiens last year) is roughly akin to a Little Leaguer's slapping a home run off Tom Seaver. The Black Hawks could not have survived with anything less. Last season the hapless Chicagoans had the most porous defense in the N.H.L.; this season, with the curly-haired, 190-lb. Esposito plugging the nets, they have been...
...Albanians-who recently received three different Peking Cabinet delegations-have also unleashed something akin to Mao Tse-tung's Red Guards. But where Mao's obstreperous young Praetorians deliberately sought to foment anarchy as a way of reviving the regime's revolutionary spirit, Hoxha's guards have become Tirana's disciplinary watchdogs. Some purges have already begun at the district level...
Deputy Interior Minister Boris Shumilin recently urged a comprehensive, nationwide approach to the problem. Heeding Shumilin's advice, the Moscow City Soviet (akin to a city council) adopted tough ordinances banning the sale of booze in the vicinity of industrial sites, schools and recreation areas. Where once a tippler could pick up a bottle at countless corner groceries and even special kiosks along major streets, henceforth only special liquor outlets, supermarkets and department stores will be permitted to sell the stuff. Other Soviet cities can be expected to follow Moscow's lead, and a national law is likely...