Word: foundings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minute suite that explores a staggering variety of instrumental and ensemble textures. "Space Minds..." is something of a departure for Jenkins because of his use of synthesizer-player Richard Teitelbaum. This is the first time that Jenkins has written for an electronic instrument, but in Teitelbaum he has clearly found a kindred spirit...
Ignoring baseball scouts and scholarships, the "California Flash" came east to Harvard because he didn't want his future to depend on his athletic ability. After his decision was made, Jellison found out his father had once been accepted to Harvard but chose to stay in California and get married instead...
...moving force behind the coalition has been Michael Harrington, who in October 1973 helped found the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC), a kind of staging area where radicals and liberals weary from the defeats of the '60s could regroup to "work within the existing social movements, which were and are predominantly liberal, as a loyal, open socialist fighting to persuade the entire democratic Left that structural change is necessary. Tactically, we move toward (this goal) by way of coalition politics. We act as part of the Left wing of the Democratic Party in order to change the Party itself...
...Washington is also feeling the pressure of power-jealous bureaucrats in the agency's regional offices. When federal EPA officials began investigating complaints of 300,000 leaking barrels of pesticides in Toone, Tenn.--where six carcinogens were later found in drinking water at 2400 times the "safe" level--regional EPA officials refused to cooperate. "I'm not going to tell you anything more about this," said one, who warned, "Listen...you people up there better stay out of this. I mean, I'm telling your office to stay out of this altogether." It wasn't until the Washington Post published...
There are other dumps. Only a few miles away, near a barren field called the Love Canal, 240 families had to be evacuated last year when state officials found enough dioxin buried beneath their homes to kill half the earth's population. Several other industrial dumpsites in New York may also be feeding the chemical into nearby rivers; and from Maine to Arkansas to California and Oregon, dioxin has left a trail of sickness, fetal miscarriages and death wherever it has entered the environment...