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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finest Blakey combos-Horace Silver on piano, Hank Mobley on tenor sax, Donald Byrd on trumpet and Doug Watkins on bass. They play hard-bop tunes (two of which are by now familiar Silver compositions), while Blakey drives them on with a flavoring of calypso or a tight break to emphasize the beat. On InfraRae and Hank's Symphony, his throbbing rolls and cymbal cadences are spotlighted in brief but impeccable solos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 11, 1968 | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...central events of the story. After singing a perfectly splendid song called "Whoever You Are," she reaches for the sleeping pills, a spot concentrates on them, and the scene fades out. But neither her dialogue nor her performance has justified this action: her relationship with Sheldrake, their break-up, and her despair are simply not convincing. And if the most serious action--the pivotal action--of the plot doesn't work, then the plot as a whole can't work either...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Promises, Promises | 10/10/1968 | See Source »

Petitions urging student support of the strikes are still being circulated by the ad hoc committee formed at Radcliffe pledging students not to break the strike by serving themselves in the event that there be food but no waitresses...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: Strike Vote Postponed To Wed. | 10/8/1968 | See Source »

...endorsement also called for Humphrey to break with the "reactionary elements of the Democratic Party." It said that the "best place to begin is with Mayor Daley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National ADA Board Votes to Back HHH | 10/7/1968 | See Source »

Occasionally, some of them take the step. They become so disgusted, so repulsed by the repressive and racist system that they make the complete break. They become committed radicals. For some, the march on the Pentagon did the trick. For others, it was Chicago. For some of us, it was a gradual series of things. But for many, it hasn't come yet. They still sit back, worry about their grades, talk about how bad the system is and how against the war they are. Many of them belong to SDS and are the ones who help give...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Radicals" | 10/5/1968 | See Source »

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