Word: lux
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dared to drop a line that even Mary Louise Smith wouldn't have minded: "Don't lie to me! If I want lies I'll talk to a Republican." Great throaty, angry boos came up from the audience (which would have, 40 years ago, marched down to the Trans-Lux to boo Roosevelt in the newsreels...
...eldest of nine children, Taj (born Henry Fredericksin New York City in 1943) lived first in the Jamaican ghetto of Brooklyn but mostly grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts. His father, a noted jazz composer and arranger of West Indian descent, introduced his son to the likes of Meade Lux Lewis. Cow Cow Davenport and Leadbelly at an early, age. His appetite whetted. Taj sought out the early master Blues artists such as Willie Brown, Charlie Patton and Kid Bailey. His pursuit of the music of Southern country blues men developed almost as a means of defying his mother...
...Princetonians are not alone in their disenchantment with campus changes. At Yale a group of alumni and students have formed Lux et Veritas...
...February 18 the Yale Political Union cancelled a proposed March debate between Shockley and Innis. A Yale alumni group, Lux et Veritas, then considered sponsoring that debate, but the event never materialized...
After the Yale Political Union halted plans for the debate last weekend in a 200-190 vote, a conservative Yale alumni group, Lux et Veritas, began talking about scheduling the debate under its own auspices. Despite criticism from Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. and the Yale Corporation, Lux et Veritas hunted around for a few days for a new debate opponent for Shockley. But by midweek, it, too, had dropped the idea of a new Shockley debate and is now trying to schedule a forum on what it calls the possible "erosion of traditionally liberal committment to free and open...