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...electronic instrumentation. In his 1971 album Mwandishi (Swahili for composer), Hancock made his first extensive use of electronic sounds with such instruments or devices as electric bass, electric piano, echoplex and phase shifter. Head Hunters finds him, in addition, employing the Arp Soloist synthesizer (for melody) and the Arp Odyssey synthesizer (melody and color). As if to justify his expenditures, Hancock says: "There is only so much you do with a keyboard...
...some states the highway patrol officially classifies him as a pedestrian. In others he is designated "bicycle." Actually, Clint Shaw is a man who is roller-skating across the U.S. from New York to Los Angeles, a 3,100-mile odyssey that he began May 4 and aims to complete in 56 days. An engaging, superbly conditioned ironworker from Victoria, British Columbia, Shaw, 32, who is 6 ft. 1 in., weighs 198 Ibs. and resembles Clint Eastwood, skates about twelve hours at a stretch and has logged as much as 78 miles a day. Previously, he had cross-skated Canada...
Ellison, who received a Doctor of Letters, is best known for his novel Invisible Man. The book details the odyssey of a Southern black who moves North in an attempt to find freedom and instead finds oppression rooted in the structure of American society. The book won the National Book Award and the National Newspaper Publishers Russwurm Award, as well as wide critical acclaim...
...perspective, but he did not write the book to be weighed in as a philosopher. The autobiographical threads that connect his chautauquas possess the urgency of self-revelation. An attempt to exorcize and thrash the "ghost of rationality" haunts Pirsig's story, and his personal quest animates the intellectual odyssey. The book's roots in common experience enable one to follow and savor its course...
...learned nothing. The image of the "happy worker" that he seeks to repudiate in one passage of the journal is, ironically, the paragon he has erected by the end. Coleman's odyssey is the masturbatory indulgence of a graying and cerebral paper-shuffler who is joyously finding sanguine reality in mindless sandwich-stuffing and garbagetoting. He should have left his diary in his desk...