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...Architecture, the charrette* depends on the constant interplay of ideas. Its most important aspect is the participation of people normally outside the decision-making process. When the concept was imported to York by the city's Community Progress Council, a federally financed antipoverty agency, it was broadened to encompass all areas of community concern...
Here is evidence suggesting that a girl has contributed to triple manslaughter, was constructing bombs for whatever dastardly purposes, had thereby blown up one house and caused substantial damage to others-all of which must encompass a veritable fistful of felonies. And yet her parents, the father a lawyer no less, refuse to cooperate with the police...
...music to encompass the total black experience, says Tenor Saxophonist Archie Shepp: "The field holler, the ring shout,* the sanctified church. That doesn't exclude white people, but if white people are to be included, they must emerge with a kind of humility," For Trumpeter Don Cherry, the music speaks most eloquently for the whole musician. "Man is a species, all human," Cherry observes. "The rest is pastels. Beware of distractions...
...last several years there has been a great proliferation of interest in alteration of consciousness. The attention that first focused on mind-altering drugs has grown to encompass sensitivity groups and other nonchemical alterations of perspective. The assumptions of these approaches and styles usually included a rejection of verbal modes...
...attitude. "They are frightened of our being too heavy, and are distrustful of their being too comedy-ish," says Producer Gene Reynolds. "The powers in TV-land want to know whether it is comedy or drama; it is very difficult for them to twist their imaginations to encompass both," says Constantine. The show is billed as a "comedy-drama," but the show's originators managed to persuade the network to eliminate a standard but bothersome sitcom laugh track. "Our humor is too subtle for it," Reynolds explains...