Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee turns to a vague ideal of flexibility. The Generally Educated man who has taken its new courses is not prepared for participating in a democracy so much as processing his own perceptions. He learns what it is like to put on the biologist's thinking cap or the musician's or the anthropologist's. If he comes out of school dedicated to an ideal it is something he has picked up on his own time. In his courses he deals with analyzing problems...
...where she creeps to wait out her time, she meets a penniless young writer (Tom Bell) and falls in love. Leslie lives in a dingy cubbyhole under the eaves, an L-shaped chamber sliced out of a larger room by a flimsy partition; beyond this wall lives a Negro musician (Brock Peters). For a while Leslie manages to keep the fact of her pregnancy from her lover. But the musician, eaten with jealousy, tells him that he has heard her being sick in the mornings. Secrets are hard to keep in an L-shaped room when, on the other side...
...French enthusiasts. Though some expatriate jazzmen never had a career worth saving at home, some have abandoned highly successful lives in America in favor of life abroad. Among the 20 or so excellent jazz musicians in Europe today are three of the best anywhere. They are the most missed of all the expatriates, and their lives away from home are as different as their reasons for leaving: > TRUMPETER CHET BAKER, 33, Says: "I left America because I had a medical problem-drugs. Europeans treat drug addicts as sick persons, not criminals, and I'm not going back home until...
...party, held last week in New York City. "All these people." as Tillich described them, were 284 subjects of cover stories in every field of human endeavor, who had gathered at the Waldorf-Astoria to help celebrate the birthday. The party provided a unique opportunity for businessman to meet musician, for architect to meet politician, for entertainer to meet scientist, for general to meet churchman, for physician to meet sportsman. "The point of this party." said Editor in Chief Henry R. Luce, "is the people who are here, that they should enjoy meeting each other face to face...
Folk singing along the Charles is not a new occurrence. Large crowds gathered to listen to musicians on the riverbank last spring without arousing police action. One musician recalled a Sunday last spring when two MDC officers stopped and listened to a gospel-sing for over an hour and then simply drove...