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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Merce Cunningham and John Cage, exponents of the outre in dance and music, have joined forces to produce a bizarre performance that has (they claim) only projective meaning: it isn't what they say, it's what the audience thinks they're saying that counts. Last Saturday's concert of three pieces met with uneven success in its attempt to give some clue as to what it was all about, but it was still...

Author: By Margaret VON Szeliski, | Title: Experimental Dance | 3/20/1962 | See Source »

...unnecessary to follow every movement or watch constantly, just as it was unnecessary to listen carefully to John Cage's accompaniment of electronic whines, buzzes, piercing, shrieking tones, and cacophonous static. The endless, disjunctive movements and music discouraged close attention: without looking, without listening, one knew that it would be more of same, more of same. Variety at random is just plain dull...

Author: By Margaret VON Szeliski, | Title: Experimental Dance | 3/20/1962 | See Source »

Grannis led off the scoring by shouldering his way down the right boards and pushing the puck through a milling crowd in front of the Yale cage...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Hockey Six Wins 93; Scores 20th Victory | 3/5/1962 | See Source »

...evening in general. At 6:55 of the second period, the Crimson's Ron Thomson launched a shot from the point. In the scramble that followed. Beckett notched the Crimson's fifth goal. When the dust cleared, there lay Nelson, flat on his back, with his head in the cage...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Hockey Six Wins 93; Scores 20th Victory | 3/5/1962 | See Source »

Mack, incidentally, won the two-mile in 9:23.1 over a formidable rival, Rod of Princeton. Also buried in the excitement were two Coxe Cage records, a 7.3 in the hurdles by Bill Flippin of Yale and a 14 ft., 4 1/4 in. pole Charlie Mitchell of Princeton...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/1/1962 | See Source »

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