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Since belated comebacks are now the byword for Harvard hockey, it was not surprising when Bruin Bill Gilligan fired one past Brian Petrovek to open the game scoring at 4:21 of the first. Less than four minutes later, wing Bob McIntosh stole the puck and waltzed in for an unassisted goal at 8:15, making...
...Black is Beautiful" became a black community byword in the late '60s, advocates of black pride began to hunt for "useable history"--evidence for a cultural asset in black roots. Gutman's thesis, to be followed by one on black urban life after 1960, furnishes blacks with a sympathetic and un-patronizing, if non-radical model of their heritage. "Kinship ties" and generational memory may go a long way toward explaining how blacks fell together during the early Civil Rights Movements. And "fictive" kin adoption may shed light on why black children in the North still grow up knowing...
Then again, no need to overeat at this meal, after last night's generous serving of four fried shrimp to every hungry student--and two more for anyone who still had room. Good eating is the byword at Harvard...
Clark Terry and David McKenna. If you're on the Cape this week or this weekend and in the neighborhood, be sure to stop by and see this act. It's a byword these days that Terry has sold out his invention and verve in favor of a commercial sound, but he's the biggest name performing anywhere near Boston this week. At Column's Restaurant on Main St. in West Dennis through Sunday...
...byword was a consistent brilliance. Good moments flowed like good frames in a film: Corea's recreation of a grandfather clock's movement in "Children's song #1;" an integrated drum solo, drums laid over the bass line for the first time in my memory; Stan Clarke's bass solo in "Bass Folk Song," and all his work on acoustic bass. Clarke plays bass as an equal member, not as a supporter. He attacks a solo from the viewpoint of a lead instrument, rather than expanding techniques of support. And there was Bill Connors's nice classically acoustic intro...