Word: eights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson nine finished first in NCAA District I competition with a 9-2 record including vicories over Dartmouth and Boston University. But an NCAA rule states that only one team may represent any single league in the eight regional playoffs for berths at the national championship to be held in Omaha, Neb., on June...
...Hawkins, then 19, was heard one night by Band Leader Fletcher Henderson, who signed him and kept him for eleven years. Hawk developed his particular sound-breathy, but also powerful and deep-grounded-in part, as he once said, "because I was trying to play over seven or eight other horns all the time." In 1939, while working with his own combo in New York City, he recorded a version of Body and Soul for RCA Victor's Bluebird label-one of the authentic masterpieces of jazz-a flight of improvised melody as carefully organized as variations...
...went last week at the premiere of Cage's latest musical production, Hpschd. Scored for one electronic harpsichord, six conventional harpsichords, eight movie projectors, 52 tape recorders and 64 slide projectors, Hpschd is an eye-and ear-boggling kinetic phantasmagoria that turned out, in one sense at least, to be Cage's most durable work - 41 hours durable, to be exact. As usual, his operating premise is that art is more of a manifestation of nature than an expression of man. This means, to Cage, that a work ideally should be as based on random chance...
...begin, an often quoted figure is that the University's expenses have tripled in the last ten years. This is misleading because during their period government contracted and funded research rose eight-fold to 55.4 million dollars. This cost Harvard virtually nothing but it makes the budget look much bigger and distorts how much costs have really risen. Delete this amount and the real (non-governmental) expenses increased by 122 per cent, not 200 per cent (from 43.2 million dollars to 96.0 million dollars...
...group, which called itself the Ad Hoc Committee on Commencement, voted to walk out of commencement exercises to express a "general disatisfaction with Harvard " and, in particular, support of the eight strike demands. The group made no decisions on specific tactics, but voted down a proposal to burn diplomas. They stipulated, however, that as a group they would not discourage any individual from taking such action...