Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whitten's group is conducting the screening with advice from members of an international relief organization which he would not name. They are giving top priority to volunteers with medical, Peace Corps, or VISTA experience, Whitten said...
...most common comment about the Who's music is that it is unclassifiable; attempting to do so does pose special problems because the group's members seem to have dredged up out of themselves a new vein in rock music--one that sounds like no other group for more than the odd fleeting moment. If you can imagine a music that sounds a little like the Beach Boys in their early 'I Get Around' stage but harder, or like The Stones' 'Jumping Jack Flash' but harder, you have the Who at their medium mellowest, i.e. doing 'Out in the Street...
Daltrey too is an impressive asset to the group, marvelously tuned as he is to the Townshend-Moon beat. A really tough man, he sings with great overflowing zeal for the material and of course his controlled hysteria on stage--flailing arms, slinging mike, tossing haunches--is legendary...
Television, of course, suffers from the self-justification syndrome worse than any other group. While reporters have to fill a few pages a day with Convention material (which varies remarkably little from one newspaper to another), the network people--especially CBS and NBC--have committed themselves to feeding the monster as much as eight or nine hours a day with this stuff. This is a little like trying to write a full-length biography of a still-born baby. The networks end up interviewing delegates and candidates over and over again, asking them the same insipid questions, occasionally shifting...
...medicine, but also one for other disciplines, especially religion and law. Everett I. Mendelsohn, associate professor of the History of Science at Harvard, joined up after Beecher saw him at a conference on the social implications of biology and chemistry, because he felt his historical background would broaden the group. Ralph Potter was pulled in from Divinity School because Ebert wanted a theologian on hand. The first man he asked recommended Potter...