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...Experimentation must proceed, but it must always be with an eye toward quality. Fortunately, the '70s provided us with two prime examples of art forms able to meet this difficult balance. Dance flourished as never before, because groups like Alvin Ailey and Pilobolus, never afraid to innovate, refused to stoop to low artistic levels to reap maximum profits. More established ballet troupes continued to provide, for the most part, first-rate productions, and the audiences responded. Jazz reasserted itself in the clubs, churches and music halls, in part because it had a proud tradition to call upon but also because...
Harvard police officers said yesterday they believe O'Connor is innocent of the charges. "We don't believe he would stoop so low as to do something like this--He's got six children," a source said...
...Goldstein '80, president of the Radcliffe Union of Students, thinks the creation of a Harvard cheerleading squad is "almost embarrassing." When Goldstein went to Harvard football games freshman year, she remembers, "people would always make fun of the other team's cheerleaders. We felt elite, because we didn't stoop to that...
...years' time. Even so, the conservation gains are not likely to be enough to offset the latest price increases. For poverty-line people and the elderly, the situation can be desperate. In Morrisville, Vt., a welfare mother of four made headlines by ripping up the front stoop of her mobile home to use as firewood because oil costs had risen beyond her reach...
...Indians do not refer to their women as "squaws" -this is a demeaning term used only by whites-and though I have often been the object of sexism it wounds me deeply that TIME would stoop to racism in an attempt to make a joke. The Indian I portray in this film is no joke...