Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blankets and Vaseline-to smear on their faces on the theory that it deadened the effects of the chemical Mace. Suddenly image-conscious, they began tidying up their own disorder, even emptying wastebaskets. A coordinated command post was set up, mimeograph machines churned out bulletins and manifestos. The Negro group in Hamilton Hall issued a formal statement: "We are prepared to remain here indefinitely. Morale is high...
Other students, including many sympathetic to the demonstrators' demands, began to complain about their disruptive tactics. Outside Low Library, some 200 counterdemonstrators cried: "Get 'em out! Get 'em out!" Some threw eggs. A group of Columbia athletes volunteered to remove the protesters, but were restrained by school officials. "If this is a barbarian society," growled a burly wrestler, "then it's survival of the fittest-and we're the fittest...
With such an accessible stage, radical Negro leaders moved briskly into the act. Charles 37X Kenyatta, head of Harlem's Mau Mau sect, led a group of his followers on a sympathy march across the campus. Black Power Apostles Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown showed up to counsel the Negro students occupying Hamilton Hall. Some 200 Negro youngsters, many of them no older than 13, snaked onto the campus chanting "Black Power...
...South as separately administered units. The planners of the new church body have set 1972 as a target date for erasing the last vestiges of its segregated structure. But many Negro Methodists believe that the United Methodist Church should have excluded racial segregation at its very beginning, and a group of Negro demonstrators picketed the uniting conference to make their point...
Historical Squabbles & Byways. Schuller avoids the excesses that have blighted so much previous writing on jazz - the legendmongering, the amateur guesswork, the "in-group jargon and glossy enthusiasm." He does plunge into some historical squabbles, notably in his attacks on the stock notion that only jazz rhythms came from Africa while its melodies and harmonies were derived from Europe; actually, he says, all of its musical elements came largely from Africa. Here and there he explores an intriguing historical byway, as in his study of the influence that New Orleans opera performances had on the ragtime and blues of Creole...