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...Berkeley to rally outside Crittenden's courtroom. They sang We Shall Over come, heard Cal professors criticize U.S. policy in Viet Nam and Savio complain about U.S. justice. Also on hand was Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg, who clanged a pair of tiny cymbals and mumbled an unintelligible, prayerlike chant. What was he trying to say? "That was a magic formula to soothe and calm the heart of the judge," Ginsberg explained...
...Musical Setting of the Eucharist, performed in May at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral, Pianist Vince Guaraldi took Anglican plain chant as his starting point. The flowing Gregorian tunes were chanted by a 68-member chorus while Guaraldi improvised back of it with his trio, shifting the mood with the spirit of the prayer. "Lord, Have Mercy" is crisp and plaintive, with a syncopated Latin rhythm; the Communion anthem is a waltzlike blues with a flowing melodic line. The "Theme for Grace" at the Offertory, with a chorus crooning the syllables of "hallelujah," reminded some listeners of mood-setting...
...Harold Litchfield: "Edward, don't you have enough balls up in the air now?" Replied Litchfield, who was running a $100 million drive to upgrade Pitt, promoting a $250 million redevelopment of the school's Oakland neighborhood, serving as chairman of S.C.M. Corp. (formerly Smith Corona Mar-chant), and heading Studebaker Corp.'s Executive Committee: "Maybe I do-but don't call me down on it till I drop one." By last week it was clear that Litchfield had finally fumbled a big one: Pitt...
...films of Sabbath Eve services in Budapest's Dohany (Tabak) Synagogue-the center of the Jewish ghetto during Nazi occupation. LOOK UP AND LIVE (CBS, 10:30-11 am) "The Evolution of Church Music." An explanation of the ethnic adaptations of liturgical music, an analysis of the Gregorian chant, and illustrative performances by Composer-Conductor C. Alexander Peloquin's Chorale comprise the first of a three-part series...
...surgery to remove polyps from his nasal passage. Willie's nose has been bleeding off and on ever since. But last week he was batting .379-the second highest average in the American League-and 18 of his 36 hits have gone for extra bases. Tiger teammates now chant, "Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, blast off!" every time he comes to bat, and Horton has responded by clouting nine home runs-seven of them tape-measure blasts that traveled at least...