Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ambitious work. Now 33, he leapt into prominence seven years ago when he anonymously entered three compositions in a competition sponsored by the Polish Composer's Association -and walked off with first, second and third prizes. The first performances of his music in Poland were attended by hard-core traditionalists who touched off riots with whistles and rattles. Penderecki merely answered with some noisemakers of his own, scored one piece for woodwinds, musical saws, files, sirens, typewriters and electric bells, not to ignore the percussionist whose work entailed assaulting a log with a handsaw...
Playwright Friel never stopwatches a line, and he has a rhetorical tic. Talk may be the crust of drama, but it can never be the core...
...James Gray of Albany. An urbane, Massachusetts-born publisher, Gray campaigned against the Great Society, lawlessness, and bragged that his stand during demonstrations in Albany resulted in the jailing of Martin Luther King. Gray, however, despite an enormous advertising campaign, never gained the popularity among the state's hard-core segregationists that Maddox enjoyed...
McKissick explained that CORE had gone through a major re-evaluation of its work in 1965, and found that all that they had helped to accomplish--a civil rights bill, two voting bills, and an anti-poverty program--would benefit only about ten per cent of the Negro population even under the best conditions...
...This talented tenth," McKissick continued, "is the only segment in the Negro population which has the money and mobility to take advantage of our work." The other 90 per cent of the American Negroes, he said, are incapable of enjoying the gains from CORE's work...