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Tension crackled around the auditorium like electricity when the speakers walked in SDS began a rhythmic chant, U. S. OUT OF VIETNAM, BUTCHERS OUT OF HARVARD. J. Lawrence McCarty, an official of the American Conservative Party serving as moderator for the Teach-in, attempted to introduce the first speaker. After it had become plain that he was not being heard, Archibald Cox '34, Harvard's troubleshooter, appeared from the rear of the stage, walked to the rostrum, and begged the crowd to quiet down. Near tears as he spoke, he asked the disrupters to "answer what is said here with...
...Absenteeism. The Illinois festival was only the tip of a jazz iceberg. From grad to grammar school, hot jazz is becoming the most popular thing since hot lunch. Even kindergartners and children in the first three grades are tapping their toes at Berkeley's Washington Elementary School, with rhythmic help from teachers like Saxophonist Bob Houlehan. In junior highs and high schools throughout the U.S., where old-fashioned swing over rock-rhythm sections is the vogue, an estimated 16,000 jazz bands are taking over from marching bands as an intramural way of life. Says Irving Bard, music director...
...using up in the process more pencil sharpeners than pencils." Nabokov described his success at beating the biblical quota of 70 years as "a feat of lucky endurance, of paradoxically detached will power, of good work and good wine, of healthy concentration on a rare bug or a rhythmic phrase. Another thing that might have been of some help is the fact that I am subject to the embarrassing qualms of superstition: a number, a dream, a coincidence can affect me obsessively-though not in the sense of absurd fears but as fabulous, and on the whole rather bracing scientific...
University Action Group, a group of radical teaching fellows and graduate students, started the rhythmic clapping it had planned when the speakers mounted the stage...
...speakers and their escorts entered from the side of the platform and the noise erupted-shouting, rhythmic clapping, chanting, booing, singing. It was to continue without a break until well after they had left...