Word: rolander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...majority, though practiced for a time in ancient Athens, has gained wide acceptance only relatively late in the day. In medieval times, whether in the great council of the church or in secular parliament, the assent of everybody was esteemed as the ideal. "Unanimity was sought," wrote J. Roland Pennock in the American Political Science Review, "even if it could be obtained only by the process of wearing down and shouting down the dissenters-or by resort to threats or physical force...
Moss had arranged to put most of the passengers up at Geneva's staid and very luxe Beau-Rivage, but the hotel's manager, Roland Cirafici, 45, was so shocked by the crowd that he refused to accept Moss's prearranged credit, and police briefly delayed the DC-8 just before it was ready to take off. On board with his wife and their son America, Pop Revolutionary Abbie Hoffman moaned, "If I don't get back to Chicago on time, I'll be in contempt of court again...
...others are not so pessimistic. At present, the seas supply only 13% of the world's animal-protein intake. Fisheries Expert Roland F. Smith of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), believes that protein from the sea could feed 1.5 billion people - almost half the world's population...
...Rahsaan Roland Kirk, next door at the Jazz Workshop until the end of the weekend, plays zillions of obscure instruments--the strich, for example--and generally puts on a high-energy show. He's a giant anomaly in progressive jazz, with a long track record, but as the novelty wears away he seems less special than he once did. Catch his act some time, but maybe not this week, with so much other good stuff...
...Rahsaan Roland Kirk is next door at the Jazz Workshop till the end of the weekend. Kirk is very high-energy and plays a zillion instruments, many of which you've never even heard of, often all at once. He's a giant anomaly in progressive jazz whose hay-days never seem to end. In a week less full of uniformly good stuff we'd recommend him without a second thought; he may be hard to squeeze in this week, what with Chem 20 hourlies piling up and all, but you really should catch his act at least once...