Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lines. It's like Jackson Pollock's painting." And Swallow, the most venturesome composer of the group, wants to pursue such directions as those he charted in General Mojo Cuts Up, in which the players improvise over a five-minute mélange of taped music, then pile their instruments into another impressionistic fancy while the tape is repeating. "Jazz," he says, "has to mutate in order to survive...
Besides Wirtz's judgement, Johnson made his decisions because of widespread criticism of "pyramiding." Graduate students in the past have been able to pile one deferment on top of another until they were exempt from service because of age. This inequity has been a focal point for the non-ideological criticism of the draft. Johnson's primary goal is known to have been halting that criticism and secondarily alleviating the inequities. Although he seems to have achieved the first, he has only reversed the second, placing the military obligation disproportionately on the formerly-privileged group...
...sophomore Jim Abbott put Harvard in range with a 4-2, riding-time decision over Brown co-captain Mal Shookner. Abbott rode Shookner for the entire second-period to pile up his riding time. In the third period, Abbott escaped, was taken down, and escaped again to end the match in a 2-2 tie. The two points for riding time gave him the decision, and allowed Panoff to win it for Harvard...
Harvard offered not the least semblance of opposition; Columbia not the least sign of mercy. The Lions ran out to a 16-0 lead and then continued to pile up points--more than any other Lion club has ever scored in one game...
Scarfe evaded the issue. While Galbraith went about his work, Scarfe sketched, filling two pads with impressions. Then he checked into Boston's Ritz-Carlton Hotel carrying a bag of flour, a pile of Boston newspapers and a roll of wire. "The staff of the hotel must have thought I was mad," he says. "The shreddings on the floor looked like bread crumbs. They probably thought I was cooking in the room...