Word: inroads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That the lowest classes are being "bought" into the system is doubtful. Recent actions by blacks and Puerto Ricans at CCNY and by blacks elsewhere cast doubt on that assertion. Observe that the Afro demand was the only one that made a direct inroad on the power of Harvard's Faculty. Did Wellesley College in accepting 104 blacks for next year's freshman class of 500 expect a placid year of co-opting blacks and teaching them proper manners...
...Soviets are also making an inroad in a historic U.S. preserve. For years, the Philippines shunned any ties whatsoever with Communist countries. Now Filipino students and journalists in growing numbers visit the Soviet Union. The Russians, in turn, send trade and cultural groups; Bolshoi dancers were performing in Manila last week. Many Filipinos expect that the two countries will establish diplomatic relations within a few years...
Monk was making a small but admired inroad into the "funk" and "soul" movements that had superseded the "cool." Funk was a deeper reach into Negro culture than jazz had taken before, a restatement of church music and African rhythms, but its motive was the same as bop's?finding something that white musicians had not taken over and, if possible, something they would sound wrong playing...
...prevailing integrationist theme made its most remarkable inroad at last week's Newport Jazz Festival. Folk is strictly music non grata at Newport. But there stood Duke Ellington singing about King and Bull Connor...
...ever become both General Education and departmental. That is, to be the best General Education course that the person giving it can devise. Then if the department recognizes this to be something it wishes to give departmental status, that is a signal victory for General Education, not a subversive inroad upon...