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...cure. Instead, they concentrate on the character and motivations of black Americans and the changing social structure within black communities. Much of the Old Guard has heatedly criticized the new approach as a misguided and dangerous capitulation to the nation's conservative tide. For better or worse, this philosophical ferment has exposed deep differences in a formerly unified black intelligentsia...
...sixties increasingly brought the CCA into debates on liberal issues, mostly centering around housing. The association was instrumental in blocking the inner beltway proposed to cut through residential Cambridge on the way out of Boston. "The sixties was a time of great liberalism and progressive ferment, and these were influential in turning CCA attention to social policy instead of just government," says Levy...
Glass returned at a time of remarkable artistic ferment (see box). In the late '60s Reich, a Juilliard classmate, had codified early minimalist theory in such works as It's Gonna Rain and Come Out. Wilson was staging The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud. Minimalist Sculptor Richard Serra (see ART), an acquaintance from Paris, was preparing a one-man exhibition in New York. Reich had already formed an ensemble, and he and Glass sometimes joined forces. A pair of 1969 concerts at the Whitney Museum of American Art attracted public and critical attention to the burgeoning phenomenon of minimalism...
...ferment was the notion that an artist need not be confined to a single area of specialization. Instead, eclecticism ruled. Glass's early minimalist pieces relied heavily on unvarnished scale passages, enraging some listeners who thought his music sounded more like etudes than formal compositions. Anderson tried her hand at sculpture before evolving her distinctive combination of music, narrative, films and slides. In The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin, which received its U.S. premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1973, Wilson welded elements of painting, set design, music, ballet and pantomime into a single twelve-hour work...
These quests are all part of the controversy and ferment that have been bubbling through the scientific community since the rise of a spectacular new theory that attempts to explain the mass extinctions--most notably the one in which the dinosaurs perished--that have punctuated the history of life on this planet. Every 26 million years or so, the theory holds, a rain of comets that lasts hundreds or thousands of centuries bombards the earth. The impact of some of the larger comets spews enough debris into the atmosphere to block the sun for months. As the skies darken, temperatures...