Word: nooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jazz Goes to College, Brubeck Time* and Impressions of Eurasia than their paperbacks of Steppenwolf or The Catcher in the Rye. But five years ago Brubeck suddenly disbanded what was probably the most popular jazz quartet of the post-World War II era. He had earned his secure nook in history and was hankering after other accomplishments. For one thing, he wanted to compose serious music-and he soon turned out three major religious works, including The Gates of Justice, a Negro-Hebraic summons to brotherhood, and Truth Is Fallen, a lament for the victims of Kent and Jackson State...
...impatience. Economically, they have made considerable progress. But this progress is most impressive in comparison with the blacks' past condition, not in comparison with white achievements. The black sense of inequality is, if anything, growing. Says the Ford Foundation's Roger Wilkins: "Racism is in every nook and cranny in this country, and each of us blacks has to deal with it every day of our lives. Any overview of black life in this country that does not include the word pain is hopelessly deficient...
...given time." Rejoins Cato: "Morality then, to New Publius, is the temporary decision of a majority of those who happen to take the effort to think about it ... The 'national conscience' resides in Washington, and if New Publius has his way it will be extended to every nook and cranny of the land at bayonet point, if necessary...