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Director of the Harvard Jazz Band Tom Everett describes Jacquet as "...one of the great balladeers of the swing style. He represents one of the major stylists of the elements of be-bop, the new music of the 40's while retaining his own style and personality, which makes him a very exciting performer...
...Harvard is a major research university, and therefore, even more than some institutions, it is affected by constraints on information flow," she added...
...mystery of all the possibilities that vanished into death and nothingness. (In October there came an odd, minor coda to the sex and death and disillusion of the '60s, when Jacqueline Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis. Illusion -- Camelot and the rest -- came to disillusion, a passage that was a major theme...
Then came the nightmare of Tet. At dawn Viet Nam time on Jan. 30, 1968, fireworks sputtered in celebration of the lunar new year. Amid the cacophony, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked Da Nang, South Viet Nam's second-largest city, and seven other major towns, breaking the Tet truce. Within 24 hours they hit 36 of 44 provincial capitals and overran almost all of the former colonial capital of Hue. Communist shock troops penetrated the heart of Saigon to attack the U.S. embassy and presidential palace. They drove General William Westmoreland into a windowless command bunker. "What...
...important symbolic victory. American confidence in the war effort, and in the leadership that had promised success, was irrevocably shattered. The images of war -- always shocking, bleak, agonizingly poignant -- took on a darker significance. "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it," declared a U.S. major in the battle for Ben Tre, a provincial capital...