Word: stood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revised proposals the Negotiating Committee submitted last week reflected a new optimism about cooperation. Black leaders still stood by their legitimate complaints about the lack of courses relevant to blacks. Harvard must improve its grossly inadequate coverage of African studies. There is also a clear need for more black Faculty members, and the committee has left that demand unchanged...
Soloists played an important role in the evening, and especially in the group of folk songs and spirituals that closed the second third of the concert. James Jones, baritone, once again stood out for the sheer professionalism of his performance. There was, however, a certain unaccustomed tightness in his production which did not, in the end, mar the overall effect. Also featured were Allan Haley, tenor, Donald Meaders, baritone. Martin Kessler, baritone, an excellent sextet in Webbe's "Glorious Appollo," and Phil Kelsey doing several prodigious "swoops" in the Poulenc...
Those Who Stood...
...most part, only the less adept or mobile were caught. Seeing police take a stance of calculated restraint, adults joined in the pillage. Often cops stood by without hindering looters. In New York City, lone patrolmen sometimes were ordered to ignore the plundering and avert traffic backups that could make riot scenes more perilous. In Pittsburgh, one eager bargain seeker stocked up a shopping cart at a looted supermarket, rolled it out into an alley, bumped into a cop and asked blandly: "Is this the way to the checkout counter...
...lamented the loss of onetime friends and the "feeling of loneliness" it gave him. Though subscribers stayed steady at 210,000, their identity changed; Ascoli feels that he was losing liberal and academic readers and that the loss was causing publishing houses to reduce their advertising. Ad pages, which stood at a moderately money-losing 543 in 1963, dropped to a painfully money-losing 401 last year...