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Baker and his California colleagues revere such "early moderns" as Negro Bop-sters Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie ("Yard-bird") Parker and Thelonius Monk. But they are far more interested in their own ideas than in merely imitating onetime models. In this, jazz historians may decide, the California youngsters are repeating the role of the white Northern musicians who 30 years ago picked up the original New Orleans variety and turned it into something called Dixieland...
...players going are Dave Babin, Lawrence Halpern, Evan Spelfogel, Dexter Lewis, Fred Sharf, Gordon Fair, Dick King, John Lane, and Monk Aiello...
...distressed with what they term "creeping asceticism" on the campus. Citing the car-ban, which forbids undergraduates to keep automobiles, and the "No Sex After Seven" rule which hustles women guests from dormitories at dusk, the Princetonian notes a discomforting similarity between his existence and that of a monk. The graduate school versus college question will, of course, be settled in top-level conferences in the Ivy League. The "creeping asceticism" versus "Charlieism" problem is being discussed somewhat lower in the academic hierarchy, with much of the heat of a genuine tug-of-war. In any event, the sides...
...only he were a monk, thought Cantalbert, he could live in a warm room, and have friends, and feed the birds and pray to the Holy Virgin. So he became a monk. But the other monks said Latin prayers and he knew no Latin. They chanted chants and he didn't know how to chant. They painted frescoes or copied manuscripts, or taught Scripture or cooked, and Cantalbert didn't know how to do any of these things. He felt more of a failure than ever, and the other monks complained about...
When Christmastime came, the monastery hummed with activity. Each monk was hard at work preparing a present for the Virgin. The cook baked an enormous many-tiered cake called "The Church Triumphant," the poet composed a miles-long Latin poem, Brother Arnaud presented Mary with the smallest illuminated Bible ever made, and Brother Thomas made an ivory carving of the Christ child that was so huge that a man had to stand away off to see it all. Juggler Cantalbert did not know what...