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...meant to acknowledge and affirm the singular course of American black musical development. The group's radical conception of musical performance has as its obvious source the improvisation and spontaneous creation which are characteristic of jazz, blues, and Afro-American folk music. These are musical values that have no counterpart in the mainstream of Western culture. But classifications like "jazz" or even "music" seem to narrow to contain the Art Ensemble's vision of "Great Black Music." It's terribly difficult to describe what the Art Ensemble of Chicago actually does, especially when confronted with the rich complexity...
...answer, quite simply, is nothing. The 1979 Harvard baseball team is, make no mistake about it, a very good team. That it has failed as yet to duplicate the greatness of its 1978 counterpart is due primarily to the randomness of highs and lows that can affect a sport like baseball over a 30-game stretch...
Saturday, April 15, 1978. The Princeton heavyweight crew cruised to an eight-second victory over the Radcliffe eight on a choppy Charles River course. The Cliffe J.V. dropped its first race ever in second boat competition, falling by 11 seconds to its Tiger counterpart...
...ultimate moment of being fulfilled," sighs Howard Johnson '81. "Eight months of training is made worthwhile in the six minutes when you prove yourself tougher, physically and mentally, than the other boat." Every victory also adds to the crew's wardrobe; each oarsman receives the racing shirt of his counterpart in the losing boat. And, of course, the oarsmen get to throw their loudly protesting coxswain into the river--even if the water is 38 degrees and polluted...
Reflecting the inconsistencies and quirks in usage, the Oxford paperback views "salesman" as exclusively masculine (with "saleswoman" its feminine counterpart). In this case the dictionary also bows uncomplainingly to civil authority, defining without derision the term "salesperson," required by law in nondiscriminatory help-wanted advertising...