Word: avant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Shape of Films to Come." A survey of new moviemaking techniques featuring Christopher Chapman's Academy Award-winning A Place to Stand and a selection of avant-garde films shown at Montreal's Expo 67. Repeat...
...service is almost as rare as it is in a movie audience. Parishioners begin to nod drowsily as the minister begins the sermon; collective prayer and singing masks the reality that most worshipers are atomistically locked in their own private thoughts. Worried about this failure to interact, a few avant-garde theologians are experimenting with new, nonverbal techniques as potential ways of restoring some sense of community in worship. A striking example of this trend took place at the recent assembly of the World Council of Churches in Uppsala, Sweden, where Wilbert H. McGaw Jr. presided over a series...
...Detroit's Wayne State University showed that 279 out of 365 students had dated, or intended to date, members of another race. Says Jim Nabors, vice chairman of the Afro-American Student Union at Berkeley: "It's no longer avantgarde. It's just a little avant-garde...
Powell's progress from jazz to the avant-garde followed an improbable path. He married Actress Martha Scott after World War II, then decided to leave the insecure jazz life and settle in Hollywood as a studio pianist for MGM. One of his major assignments was recording backgrounds for Tom and Jerry cartoons. At first, the constant glissandos of cartoon music put blisters on his knuckles, but a fellow studio pianist, Andre Previn, showed him how to play them with a comb. Meanwhile, Powell pursued his studies in serious music. In 1948 he moved east to study composition with...
Powell is obviously a long way from appealing to the mass audience that applauded his jazz piano in the '40s. "My public now," he says, "is the 250 people who come to hear my works along with those of other avant-garde composers." Still, he could hardly ask for a more appreciative audience than those 250 people-or rather...