Word: session
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JACKIE McLEAN: NEW AND OLD GOSPEL (Blue Note). That hardy musical ghost, gospel, is summoned once again for this session. Its vibrations materialize most happily in a church-spirited composition by Ornette Coleman, who simply plays trumpet on this album. In Altoist McLean's four-part piece Lifeline, though, these vibrations become only the merest echo, as the group slides into the "new gospel" of freedom. Here McLean's quintet (Lamont Johnson on piano; Scott Holt, bass; Billy Higgins, drums) wheels uninhibitedly through the cycle of human experiences, expressing exultation with rollicking riffs, wonder with gentle breathings, anxiety...
...Budapest, a conference of national Communist parties, convening behind closed doors, did little to cement the cracks of disunity. Only 52 of the 88 invited parties bothered to come to the session, which was sponsored by the Russians. At week's end, those who did come were reported close to an agreement on an agenda and a date for a Communist summit conference in Moscow that the Kremlin has been promoting for years. The leaders had trouble, however, disguising the fact that most of the bloc will welcome such an event with a lack of enthusiasm bordering on dismay...
...done ad lib, but Stokes proved so deft and engaging in his first taping session that the segments will now be expanded from three to five minutes and go into rerun throughout the week. "He's so good it's unbelievable," says WKBF General Manager Jay Berkson. The telegenic mayor had turned down earlier requests to do regular evening shows like those of New York City's John Lindsay or Los Angeles' Sam Yorty. Berkson sold him on the afternoon program as a way to "reach the kids before their ideas and prejudices develop...
...Massachusetts it wasn't 30 years ago, or even ten; it was two years ago, August 8, 1966, that the state legislature approved a law which permitted qualified physicians to prescribe methods of contraception to married women. (As a result of a federal law passed this last session, funds will be cut off as of July 1, 1968 unless the state provides birth control information and service to both married and unmarried women.) Additionally, and almost humorously, the Massachusetts law prohibits the pharmacist from selling any item he knows is for contraceptive purposes; condoms, as everyone knows, are for sanitation...
...Cambridge City do not initiate conversation with patients on family limitation; rather the client must start the discussion and present proof of marriage. Boston Lying-In and Boston City Hospital, recognizing the reluctance of many women to discuss birth control, are more aggressive. The latter provides a post-partum session on maternal (including contraception) and child care and the former offers contraceptive information routinely in the six weeks post-partum check...