Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...following day the black group called on Israeli Ambassador Blum and told him that it made "no apologies for our support of Palestinian human rights, just as we make no apologies to the P.L.O. for our continued support of the state of Israel." Replied Blum: "It's ridiculous to equate us with the P.L.O. It's like equating criminals to a police force...
Organized by a group called Women Against Pornography, this unlikely female sortie is only one tactic in a new feminist cause: an all-out war against pornography. The rationale is that pornography is a significant factor in the nation's disturbing rate of sexual violence against women and children. One of the movement's organizers and a leader of the weekly Manhattan tours is Susan Brownmiller, author of Against Our Will, which contends that rape is a social and political instrument to oppress women. Adds Psychologist Phyllis Chesler: "For years women have been reluctant to speak out against...
...circuits of such cities as Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, New Orleans and Key West. A folk quartet called the Nee Ningy Band has also covered Africa and Western and Eastern Europe during its ten-year career. Consisting of fiddle, harmonica, bodhran (a flat goatskin drum) and penny whistle, the group takes its name from the sound the fiddle makes-nee ningy, nee ningy, nee ningy. Its members carry camping equipment, often stay in local homes. Says Violinist Rachel Maloney: "You learn to live with the insecurity, just as you learn to live with security...
Increasingly, shopping centers and civic institutions are recruiting street musicians instead of complaining about them. Boston's Quincy Market, Manhattan's Lincoln Center and San Francisco's Cannery all audition or actually hire them for scheduled performances. In Boston, a nonprofit group called Articulture Inc. deploys street musicians at three subway stops during rush hours, which "lowers the collective blood pressure." Currently, commuters at the Park Street station are bemused to encounter Nancy Feins strumming the strains of C.P.E. Bach on the harp. "One woman asked me if this was a harpsichord," says Feins. "Another person swore...
...have their minds on bills and backaches rather than on Telemann partitas. With no investment in a ticket, they find it easiest to review a performance with their feet: they keep on walking. Hence a by-God spontaneous response is the street musicians' sweetest reward. A Seattle group called Brandywine (violin, hammer dulcimer, guitar, bass) will always cherish the moment during the Fat Tuesday celebration when its galloping rendition of the William Tell Overture so inflamed a woman bystander that she bounded up onto a horse behind a mounted policeman. Hi-ho, Rossini...