Word: segmented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music that is played there. So many performers must take the stand during a given Festival concert that none of them gets a chance to play for more than an hour; some have less than thirty minutes. For a musician who is a slow starter, a tiny time segment can be fatal. Even groups which swing from the moment they start to play need time to establish their own mood. The size of the crowd precludes any real give-and-take between audience and artist beyond the mass-meeting variety...
This was also a year of revolution for the commuting segment of the undergraduate community. Both Phillips Brooks House and the newly formed commuters House Committee were dissatisfied with an arrangement which allowed 250 day-students into PBH each noon for lunch. The pot boiled over when the PBH cabinet expelled the commuters on June 1, effectively forcing the Administration to provide new quarters. Both sides settled finally upon Dudley Hall, using only the first floor in the beginning and eventually taking over the whole building...
...union victory would mean the closing of the plant, or at least a drop in wages to the national minimum scale of $1.15 an hour. The foremen were widely believed. Management also persuaded a great many Negroes to vote against the union by arguing that if the "radical" segment of the colored community came to power Chestertown's white leaders would get angry, and withdraw from Negroes such benefits as they have been granted...
Catholics differed widely. Los Angeles' Cardinal Mclntyre chided Ribicoff for bypassing equal aid to parochial schools. But the church's chief Washington education lobbyist, Msgr. Frederick G. Hochwalt, called Ribicoff's idea "quite intriguing." said that "a fairly large segment" of Catholic parents "are interested in something along these lines...
Exploring (NBC, 12:30-1:30 p.m.). An educational smorgasbord for children, including puppets explaining math and astronomy, a re-creation of the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, a small segment of the life and times of the average porpoise, and Actor Eli Wallach reading The Pied Piper of Hamlin...