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This is no mean feat. In the man-eating jazz business, those musicians who survive to enjoy advanced age have usually developed a ring of impregnable defenses which make it difficult for anyone, especially young white filmmakers, to get too close. Viewers saw Count Basie's legendary reserve during an appearance on 60 Minutes last year. His laconic performance--"Drugs? You can't use drugs and play jazz. Maybe rock musicians can, but jazz musicians, never"--was a model of Spartan deportment. Ricker quickly learned that direct questions would yield direct answers--"yes," "no," or on occasion a poetic...
...college tennis is a funny sport. Since the level of play is virtually the same as many freshmen players will have faced in regular amateur competition, the transition is often not difficult. Thus, while most Harvard teams rebuild year after year, Fish managed the feat in a few months...
...difference must be stressed. Playwright Pielmeier has performed the difficult feat of creating a credible innocent, a plausible saint. Agnes cannot hear the voices of the world because her heart is trust to God. In one telling interchange, Pielmeier captures the inner guilt and grief of those who, reared as Christians, yearn to believe again. Agnes has told of speaking with...
...Cleveland State University prepared to host its third NCAA championship meet, consensus favored Ray Bussard's Tennessee Volunteers to repeat their feat of the previous year at Long Beach. Clearly Tennessee thundered into Cleveland with a distinct edge in qualifying places. Based on rankings from premeet times, the Vols would have accumulated 264 points. Florida (198), Cal (164), UCLA (159), and USC (93) followed on the list of premeet prognostications...
...joined the civil rights movement in the '40s, worked with Martin Luther King in the '60s, and spoke out early against South African apartheid and for Namibian independence. As an antiwar activist he won his greatest success, turning his lonely struggle to "Dump Johnson" into a mass movement. This feat drew from Robert Kennedy praise, "For Al, who knew the lesson of Emerson and taught it to the rest of us: `... if a single man plant himself on his convictions and then abide, the huge world will come round...