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AUTUMN SONG is visionary. It has all the impact of Morrison's classics, "TB Sheets," and the more recent "Listen to the Lion," but enjoys the virtue of accessibility. Anybody can get close to the cool jazz tempo with its prominent flutes and deliberate lack of structure, thanks to Rich Schlosser's wonderfully slipshod drumming. Gary Mallaber's vibes add to that unreal quality. Labes' piano struggles to cement the song and fails, yet remains as coloring. Platania's noodling and inconsistency work perfectly here. This is a song of instants, like the vibes and wah-wah fusion...
About the size of a modern lion, the sabertooth, or Smilodon (from the Greek words for "knife" and "tooth"), had powerful jaws equipped with two long fangs that it could use like daggers to rip into large prey, notably the poky, plant-eating mastodons that also inhabited the American continent. When the elephant-like mastodons began to die out, the sabertooth's days were also numbered. Slower afoot than modern tigers and possessed of a smaller brain, the sabertooth could not keep up with speedier prey that might have assured its survival. Indeed, archaeological dating of the remains...
...night and thinks: "My heavens, there are 2,000,000 teachers out there. Then I wonder about what 2,000,000 people could do if they had the right leadership." This, too, is fitting and proper, for Mrs. Wise has just assumed the presidency of the 1.4-mil-lion-member National Education Association. On her, therefore, falls the responsibility of trying to negotiate a merger during the coming year with the smaller but more militant American Federation of Teachers (375,000 members). If the negotiations with New York's Albert Shanker and other teacher-union leaders succeed, the combined...
...managed to portray the plan as outlandishly expensive. He alleged it would put millions of people "on welfare." And he provided a striking piece of evidence that "the middle income taxpayer will pay the lion's share of the bill...
...lion's share of the blame for the Press's problems can be attributed to the less-than-firm hold that then-director Carroll had on the controls of the operation. And to compound the problem, Carroll and Hall--the man who supervises the administration of the Press along with ten other service organizations--had real conflicts in philosophy and personality. "We couldn't get on common philosophical wavelengths," Hall said repeatedly after Carroll's dismissal. And as the antagonism that existed between the two men grew worse and worse the inevitability that one of them would have...