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...Ethiopian Students Committee has begun a drive that will eventually encompass almost every American university to raise money for the National Literacy Campaign presently being conducted in Ethiopia. The African country has one of the highest illiteracy rates in the world...
Kenneth Guscott, president of the Boston branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, added: "This group should not be made up of only Negroes, but rather Negroes and whites. It should encompass all the leaders of the community. Then if anything should happen, the police can call upon responsible citizens for aid. We do not want another Harlem...
...More. For Cranko, 37, a spare, gentle man of steely determination, the festival was one more step toward realizing his vision of expanding the horizons of his company "to encompass and incorporate all known dance forms and then add some more." A native of South Africa, Cranko first became hooked on ballet while working as a puppeteer in Cape Town, soon pulled other strings to land a job in 1947 with London's Sadler's Wells Theater Ballet as a dancer and sometime choreographer. Five years later, critics were calling him "the young hope of British choreography." Later...
...registered equally on his retina. In the eight years between Morning on the Oise and Field in June, Daubigny traded the traditional depth of his predecessors for the surface impact of red poppies. Eventually, even such panoramas were replaced by the narrower vision that the eye can encompass without moving...
With today's model, it is no longer necessary to sit in cramped quarters for a specific time. Improved and enlarged to encompass the continent, the big machine works on its subjects continuously, day and night. From innumerable screens and stages, posters and pages, it flashes the larger-than-life-sized images of sex. From countless racks and shelves, it pushes the books which a few years ago were considered pornography. From myriad loudspeakers, it broadcasts the words and rhythms of pop-music erotica. And constantly, over the intellectual Muzak, comes the message that sex will save...