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...serous side, returning classmates will be able to hear informative programs such as "Adams House Then and Now" with Master William Liller: "The Spiraling Cost of Higher Education and How to Pay for It" with Dean Dunlop; and "Canadian Professional Hockey" with football coach-designate Joe Restic...
...more serous objection to OBU's demands is the contention that agreeing to the OBU demand would be dishonest since the University does not control the hiring of workers, black or white on construction projects and since there simply aren't enough minority group workers in the area with the requisite skills. The answer to the University's fears about finding enough workers is simple enough: it can call OBU's bluff and wait. If the required number of construction hands don't appear, it won't be the University's fault. On the other hand, if the workers...
...mind is obvious. If this country's Negroes were wholly disaffected from the federal government, they could only continue their fight by methods which would almost surely provoke widespread violence. The disorder in Birmingham, though regrettable, is mild even by present standards--there have been no shootings, no serous injuries. The federal government's attempt to bring it to an end, before King's demands have been met, would have far more frightening consequences...
This is a serous flaw. An extended composition needs some principle of organization, some inner logic that not only gives the separate sections a raison d'etre, but also builds to a culmination. The cantata's failure to do these things is attributable to several factors. There seemed to be virtually no relation between orchestra and chorus. The vocal sections were usually accompanied by only the piano, and it is significant that the one exception--Robert Gartside's tenor solo with light orchestral accompaniment--was among the high points of the performance. The conducting of Michael Greenebaum kept the difficult...
...editor, "in a happy-go-lucky fashion where at least at much time was devoted to punches and jolly fellowship as to work." But by the end of the eighties a sterner spirit had overtaken the board, and the social and alcoholic functions were abandoned in favor of more serous and better organized journalistic effort...