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...most players also felt that it would be a mistake to make any absolute decrees, because there may be years when Harvard simply cannot fill its trombone, or tuba, or bass sections. "If Harvard recruited more musicians--and offered them more here--that problem wouldn't arise," one violinist said...
...story hotel window. "We were just having fun, letting off pressure," he remarked afterward. "It was funny when the cops came in and looked at us like we were mad dogs." But it wasn't so funny several months ago at New York's Beacon Theater, when Bass Player Leon Wilkeson tossed his smashed guitar into the audience, lacerating the face of a girl in the front...
Starting in about 1948 that began to change. The progress took place mainly through the efforts of Southern blacks allied with Northern liberals and labor unions. The story gets complicated here, Bass and DeVries say, because the pressure exerted on behalf of racial equality changed major and minor features of politics very quickly. First, the Southern racists were read out of the National Democratic party at Truman's convention, and formed their own National States Rights Party. The civil rights movement won crucial successes after that, chief among them the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which insured...
...phenomenon of rising Republicanism differed from state to state, Bass and DeVries point out: in Arkansas, Georgia and Louisiana there is nothing approaching a viable statewide Republican party; South Carolina and Texas have strong Republican state organizations, while the party in Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia has been able to build on a nucleus of "mountain Republicans," whose loyalty stems from their support of freedom for the slaves (they didn't own any) and the Union during the Civil War. In these latter places, the Republican party has, in large measure, kept its traditional stance as a center-right group...
...Bass and DeVries' book heaps on documentation for these trends--almost too much, really, even though I happen to be into most of the approximately 100 pages of tables and maps. On the matter of Southern culture they are less satisfactory, perhaps because the authors may be like many Southern liberals, a little ashamed of what could be perceived as an unbelievably hatefilled past. But Bass and DeVries could take a different view of the heritage: that the passion and faith of the Southerner, white and black, freed from racism, can be translated into a striving for justice...