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...fight someone, but because they want to know who they are. Roots is all of our stories. It's the same for me or any black. It's just a matter of filling in the blanks?which person, living in which village, going on what ship, across the same ocean, slavery, emancipation, the struggle for freedom." Now, Haley says, "some very important things are happening among young blacks. The generation of the 1960s was so quick to label all older blacks as 'Uncle Toms.' Roots has helped turn this around. People come up and thank me for making them...
...Fire Island--a 32-mile stretch of sandy New York resort towns, whose main purpose is to keep the Atlantic Ocean off of the front lawns of all those nice mainlanders on nearby Long Island--my neighbors and I huddled together on the pleasantly rickety old ferry dock, waiting for the Coast Guard to make good on its early-morning evacuation order. Earlier, a few of my closer and more foolhardy friends had announced their plan to defy the local honchos and ride out the storm, and for a while I had entertained hopes of joining their struggle against...
...whom the theory is now named. Last year three scientists -James Hays of Columbia, John Imbrie of Brown University and Nicholas Shackleton of Cambridge University in England-published the strongest evidence yet that Milankovitch was right. Analyzing cores of sediments taken from beneath the floor of the Indian Ocean, the trio assembled an accurate record of the earth's climate dating back 450,000 years and correlated this information with data about the earth's orbit...
Gregory spent her sabbatical with John Hemminger, her new husband and manager, in Pacifica Palisades, Calif. Living quietly near the ocean, she swam daily, sketched seascapes and baked cakes. For seven months she took no classes. Injuries from 14 years of non-stop dancing melted away. Ounces, however started to add up to pounds. A sentimental visit to her former ballet teacher, Carmelita Maracci, easily hooked her on dancing again. She credits her husband, a onetime record producer whose circle includes film makers and folk musicians, with opening her horizon. Never again, vows Cynthia, will she permit dance to consume...
...focal point of jazz will be moving to Cambridge soon. The Rise Club on 485 Mass Ave., is a new jazz house that promises to bring in music that has never made its way into Boston proper. The Club is off to a good start this week featuring Ocean, made up of a group of musicians who have played with Stanley Turrentine and the Heath Brothers. Ocean will play through the weekend...