Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Berklee's Performance Center, the Berklee School will present Berklee's all-star music faculty playing 200 years of jazz. Their big band ensemble will take on Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong. Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Woody Herman and others. To get to the performance center hop a Dudley bus to Auditorium. Tickets are $5, $4 and $3. There is a $1.50 reduction for those with student...
...About Change" and "They Keep Comin'," on the other hand, are both paens to black progress, one bitter and funny, the other proudly insistent. In the former, one soloist pokes fun at the discomfort busing is causing whites. "Once we walked nine miles to school, while they took the bus," he sings. "Now they want to talk to school, and leave the driving...
...issue was impressive. There was a terrific article about who was doing the best job covering Carter, entitled "The Best Crystal Balls on the Bus." In a survey of bizarre editorial writing, More came across the Philadelphia Daily News's Richard Aregood, who plugs away at strange causes in an extremely eye-catching way. The seeming abundance of Jews in the media was explored. The magazine was littered with loot, almost as if More's editors had collected little gems for the past few years and decided all at once to show us their splendid collection...
...that its editors have nothing left to show. And many of the summer's gems have turned to glass. Four out of five letters are devoted to correcting stories from the July/August issue. An explanation at the end of the letters section shatters "The Best Crystal Balls on the Bus" piece by telling us that the writer, Milton S. Gwirtzman, is on Jimmy Carter's staff. Then, as if to rub things in a bit, More's editors note that Gwirtzman's "involvement with Carter in no way diminishes his analysis." Sure. And perhaps Gwirtzman didn't have...
...battle began a decade ago, when the N.A.A.C.P. led a boycott against white merchants, some of whom were public officials, in Port Gibson, Miss. The aim was to force such changes as the desegregation of the local schools, bus stations and hospital, the hiring of black policemen and the elimination of such terms of address as boy, girl, shine and uncle. In February 1967 the boycott was eased after the town hired its first black policeman. Twice more-after Martin Luther King's assassination in 1968 and the police shooting of a Port Gibson black in 1969-the N.A.A.C.P...