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...remove the study of 'black music' from some racially determined authority. If we were to treat 'black music' as a true academic field, there should be no racial pre-requisites for study. I'm trying to say, look, we're trying to say this is a serious academic endeavor. Let's get on with the work," Radano says...
Ultimately, Radano chose to study Anthony Braxton's career, not to present another jazz biography but to employ his life and work as a lens for observing the confusion and fragmentation of post-World War II American work, an endeavor that Radano is still best known for, Shelemay says...
...opinion we must not search for a uniform model of freedom for all people. We must endeavor to create a desirable milieu in which people can more easily tolerate one another and come up with an agreed definition of freedom and, accordingly, streamline the society...
Unlike most contemporary comedians whose entire careers are pointed toward the San Fernando Valley's sound stages, Seinfeld says he relishes returning to life on the road as a stand-up comic, which he claims as his true vocation, the "noblest endeavor." He plans to tour Europe and Australia this summer and then spend a week on Broadway filming an HBO special titled I'm Telling You for the Last Time; it will mark the last time he performs his current act. It's a kind of self-imposed trick, he says, to force him to write and perform...
What Rudenstine's remark--buried 12 pages into a sweeping 14 page speech--doesn't reveal is that the first such outpost could be only months away. The University has drafted rules for such an endeavor, and Rudenstine has assembled a committee to approve any proposals...