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...MUSIC ITSELF shows an unusually broad range of expression. The Art Ensemble has chosen a musical language which accepts and draws on both the multitude of musical experiences that have shaped the styles of its individual players and the roots of jazz itself. One thinks of avantgarde jazz in terms of raw rhythmic energy and screeching atonalism, but the Art Ensemble's musical vocabulary evokes swing, calypso, bebop circus music, rhythm'n blues and a host of other influences side-by-side with the visionary innovations of a Coltrane or an Ayler. It's not simply a case...
Aaron J. Alter '79, Harvard first marshal, said the three orators were chosen from among 40 competitors to give the five-minute speeches. "We listened to everybody--presentation was just as important as content," Alter said...
...such figures as Churchill, F.D.R., De Gaulle and Patton make their predictable cameo appearances. With the exception of Ian Richard son's Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, the famous faces are re-created in the crude broad strokes of Halloween masks; ABC rightly assumes that TV's chosen audience, the young, won't know the difference. Of all the Big Names the one who gets the shortest shrift is Mamie...
...guerrillas of the Patriotic Front, who have fought against the Smith regime from sanctuaries in Mozambique and Zambia for more than six years and were determined to upset the voting. Nonetheless, the Salisbury government claimed at week's end that about 60% of the 2.8 million eligible blacks had chosen to vote, and hailed this as an endorsement of the so-called internal settlement...
Gibbens said Chase N. Peterson '52, former vice president for alumni affairs and development, had chosen him, and "the terms under which I was hired have changed, since Fred Glimp approaches things differently...