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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yorker, Cunningham believes that movement and sound function independently in a dance. As John Cage puts it, they merely coincide in Space-Time. So at one premiere night the Cunningham troupe heard the score for the piece for the first time. A dance, according to Cunningham, does not mean anything that can be translated into words or music. It has no explicitly dramatic or psychological content. Particular movements may evoke emotional responses in the audience, but these responses will vary from person to person. Cunningham is interested in movement itself, "the physical image, fleeting or static." Unlike Graham in "Clytemnestra...

Author: By Maeve Kinkead, | Title: Merce Cunningham & Dance Company | 5/29/1968 | See Source »

...This should mean that postponements will be almost automatic," John B. Fox, director of the Office of Graduate and Career Plans, said last night. "Any student who asks for a postponement should be able...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Drafted Students May Stall Service | 5/27/1968 | See Source »

...crew can qualify for the finals simply on the strength of its reputation. Two false starts in a trial heat would put Bob Hayes out of a 100-yd. race even if there were no doubt that he could win the final running backwards. Why do rules mean something else in crew? Would these rules be bent as far as they were for Harvard if the boat in question was from Columbia or Brown? Or would those pious friends of Harvard rowing keep their mouths shut...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CATCHING CRABS | 5/24/1968 | See Source »

...recruitment but, as shown by the discussion at their final meeting last Tuesday, SFAC members are interested in moving into different and perhaps more relevant areas of University policy. As such, the Council will not live or die by tomorrow's decision--in fact tomorrow's decision will not mean that much...

Author: By Andrew Jamison, | Title: SF AC's Future | 5/20/1968 | See Source »

Dylan does things in poetry (words chosen, not to fit the lyrics of a tune, but for what they mean to the other words, the imagery, and the message). And although some of his earlier songs were out-and-out civil rights propaganda (i.e., they had a defined moral and even political message), most everything Dylan writes is seeking, often finding, and brilliantly revealing something that is true. In other words, there is a hierarchy of messages folk singers work with--things ranging from describing a visual and sensual environment to moralizing. You get the idea from listening...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Dylan's Message | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

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