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...this unusual background and Spellman's easy-going nature that made his courses so popular...
...Spellman didn't fit in at Harvard. For one, A.B. (and everybody called him that, not Mr., or professor or sir) believes that there are other ways to teach students besides boring them with texts or testing them until the information, however unimportant, is understood...
...Spellman wrote best when he wrote about black music and the people who make it. His close association with the greatest black musicians, including pianist Cecil Taylor, and master saxophonists Jackie McLean, Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane, gave him an insight into what it means to be a black artist in America...
...Spellman said this week that he resigned last fall to work with the National Endowment because of the administration's "discriminatory policy" toward Afro, specifically its failure to recommend Ephraim Isaac, associate professor of Afro-American studies, for tenure...
...have a career at Harvard would be about the same as submitting to a voluntary emasculation," Spellman wrote in his letter of resignation to then-Afro chairman Ewart Guinier...