Word: discs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remember listening several years back to a recording of Coitrane's great "Love Supreme," and right after the ending of that piece's first movement the disc jockey did a fade-in to Sanders's "Upper Egypt." It was one of the few times when you could not tell the difference between Trane's horn and another's. The highest compliment...
...Expenses. One important reason that relatively few stations have adopted the format, despite its impressive success, is its equally impressive cost. Instead of a skeleton crew of disc jockeys and rip-and-read announcers, an all-news station typically has platoons of street reporters, anchor persons, helicopter-borne traffic spotters, weather analysts, consumer reporters, writers, editors, directors and producers. New York's WCBS, for example, has 60 editorial employees, nearly three times its pre-all-news complement, and Chicago's WBBM went from 32 staffers to 64 when it made the switch in 1968. Says WBBM General Manager...
...miniature piano pieces to perfect the art of compressing much into little. They could almost be called transistorized sonatas. Op. 126 especially finds the composer speaking with harrowing intensity and sharp intent. Gould, technically brilliant as ever, not only gets the point but conveys the intensity. The most eloquent disc performances of these works since Artur Schnabel set the standard in the 1930s...
...Mass. Hall sit-in conducted by the members of DISC last April underscored Advisory Committee Chairman Andrew F. Brimmer's complete denial of their proposals' legitimacy, and, when Brimmer would not relent, Bok's failure to openly address the issues Brimmer especially, should not have excluded DISC so off-handedly. But now that it has rightly begun to recognize DISC, the DuBois advisory board should continue to listen to the groups' ideas and incorporate them into its conception of the Institute...
...DISC charged at the hearing that the six were victims of selective prosecution on the basis of race and class...