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...name is Abbey Lincoln, but she also answers to Aminata Moseka when the spirit moves her. She started out as Anna Marie Wooldridge, then became Gaby Lee and, for a time, Mrs. Max Roach. If all these shifts in appellation suggest a life that has gone through many changes, that's hardly the whole story. They also indicate that this remarkable singer's managers have tried several times to reinvent her to suit themselves. Talking with her now, it is difficult to believe such a self-consciously independent woman would permit anyone to tinker with her name, much less something...
...style has been likened to Billie Holiday's. It is a comparison that Lincoln, who has recorded two albums of Holiday's songs, encourages -- up to a point. Says she: "I can't imagine what it would have been for me if she hadn't been there." Like Holiday's, Lincoln's voice can be harsh. But she invariably finds the emotional center of a lyric, singing every syllable clearly enough to satisfy the standards of a BBC announcer...
When it comes to content, Lincoln draws the line. Twenty years ago, she decided she would no longer sing about "no-good men and how they mistreat you," as Holiday, a legendary masochist when it came to love, so often did. Instead, Lincoln celebrates the self-reliance of a black woman who has freed herself from the limitations of race, marriage and the opinions of other people, black or white. "I'm at odds with this society, with this culture," she says. "I'm somebody who likes to have something to say. If nobody wants to hear it, that...
Although the company received many other offers, including one from Lincoln Center in New York City, it came to Harvard to work with students, says ART Managing Director Robert J. Orchard...
...Barnes Foundation closed a $700,000 book-and-catalog publishing deal with Knopf; it was signed soon after the foundation controlled by Knopf's owner, Samuel Newhouse Jr., gave a $2 million donation to Lincoln University -- sheer coincidence, no doubt, but nevertheless the timing prompted a lawsuit brought by the DeMazia Trust. Meanwhile, several objectors within the Barnes Foundation -- both teachers and students -- have been expelled or dismissed, allegedly on Glanton's orders...