Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles City College. He began giving concerts four years ago. To support himself and pay for his 1,000 Ibs. of musical instruments-many of his gongs are on loan from the Santa Barbara Museum-he has worked as a laborer, office clerk and house painter. Despite his meager income from an average of three concerts a week, Tree envisages adding more instruments to create a wider range of sound. Eventually, he hopes to build a concert hall to his own specifications. The hall, as Tree plans it, would resonate sufficiently to serve as a musical instrument itself...
...Harvard students and faculty. The widespread debate on University-community relations which the committee had hoped its report would initiate never occurred. Pre-occupied with academic concerns, students and Faculty allowed the report to slip into semi-oblivion. Just before spring break, committee chairman James Q. Wilson told a meager audience of 26 people at the Ed School that the committee had been "naive" in expecting to rouse the University over community issues. "We addressed ourselves to everybody in general and nobody in particular," he said, lamenting the report's seeming demise...
...Urgency of co-ed living was emphasized by the death of the Harvard-Radcliffe bus. Meager patronage made the bus lose about $30 a night, and Harvard administrators said they would not continue the costly experiment...
...decision to make the universities take part in his investigation suggests that deeper probes are coming. Few Harvard deans imagined that last week's reply was going to satisfy the committee's appetite for information about the student rioters. The recent record McClellan's committee has chalked up offers meager encouragement. In its investigations of urban riots and of Chicago's Blackstone Rangers, the committee similarly began with innocuous requests for information about Federal programs. From there it moved into more sweeping hunts for signs of plots and Commie agitators. His recently-released report on summer riots offers startling evidence...
...Dyess, Ark., in 1935, when a New Deal colony opened up there. Like the other landless farmers who gathered in search of their American dream, they ended up with 20 acres, a house, barn, chicken coop, a mule, a cow and a plow. The work was hard, the income meager. But, insists Johnny, "I was never hungry a day in my life. Aw, sometimes at supper we had to fill up on turnip greens and sometimes at breakfast it was just fatback and biscuits-but that was plenty." And the entertainment was strictly homemade, usually singing along to the crackling...