Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mysticism to 14-year-olds. If you bothered to decode the words "Incredible String Band," you still wouldn't buy--for fear of getting the New Christy Minstrels. The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion (Elektra Records) has been non-popular for months ("It sells about the level of Tim Buckley," reports a record store clerk); but it's of the same inventive class as John Wesley Harding and Sgt. Pepper...
Lastly, some see a cut-off in how far VAC courses let you go above a certain level of competence in a field. There is always the possibility of do- ing a special project for credit--the only way you can go above that level of competence. But these are difficult to get approved. And if there is a tendency to favor a certain kind of project, it is for those of mixed or experimental media. A simple painting project might be rejected because the Center wouldn't want to legitimize what outsiders might consider a craft...
...this last criticism is the most tenuous. And next year and the year after most of the new courses will be upper-level studies that should call for higher levels of competence...
...first of the Asian immigrants, indentured laborers on the Uganda Railway, were followed by thousands of enterprising countrymen, who became traders, clerks, and accountants, and who boosted East Africa's fledgling economy by penetrating the interior with their box-like "duka" shops. Under British control they occupied middle-level administrative jobs and monopolized many areas in trade and commerce...
...than gropes around to find its lost focal point, and succeeds only in ending three or four times before the end titles; good color photography and John Fahey's original guitar score can't save Donald MacDonald's The Latter Day (UCLA) from being a tedious excursion to low-level technical competence because of its ill-conceived, impersonal idea. We imagine, in watching these films, committees of students in a think-tank saying "Hey, I've got a good idea for a film..." at best, and probably, "Hey, this wouldn...