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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...musical ghost, gospel, is summoned once again for this session. Its vibrations materialize most happily in a church-spirited composition by Ornette Coleman, who simply plays trumpet on this album. In Altoist McLean's four-part piece Lifeline, though, these vibrations become only the merest echo, as the group slides into the "new gospel" of freedom. Here McLean's quintet (Lamont Johnson on piano; Scott Holt, bass; Billy Higgins, drums) wheels uninhibitedly through the cycle of human experiences, expressing exultation with rollicking riffs, wonder with gentle breathings, anxiety with abrasive scurryings, and finally the pain of death with...
...recruit more Negro students, professors and administrators. In most cases, the administration has quickly acceded to the demands. Last week the trustees of California's 18 state colleges voted to increase, from 2% to 4% of the entering class, the number of Negro, Mexican-American and other minority-group students to be admitted under special standards-that is, not by grades alone...
Members of the Class Committee and of an ad hoc group of seniors that first suggested a guest speaker have said that the purpose of the speech was to insure that the questions of war and peace were touched on during Commencement week, and to dramatize the singularity of a year in which many seniors face immediate induction...
...Americans were at the time more interested in mobilizing Indians than in converting them, but when peace was restored they began to feel pangs of Protestant responsibility brought on by the recent abdication of the Londoners. A group of Bostonians in 1787 established the present foundation to take up the work dropped by the London Society. A typical contributor to the new Society for Propagating the Gospel was one Colonel Alford, who, according to the executor of his will, "was desireous the Aborigines should be both civilized and christianized; that the Gospel should be sent into the dark, benighted parts...
Although the GSOC slate faces no formal opposition on the ballot, a conservative faction of the Graduate Student Association (GSA) has kept support for the "new left group" at a minimum, according to Margaret Theeman, a member of the Graduate Student Council...