Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...judge the music. White rock musicians today have nothing, in Dylan's phrase, to live up to. And the audiences will pay in turn to be insulted (The Mothers), bored (The Ultimate Spinach), assaulted (The Fugs and MC 5), ignored (The Jefferson Airplane and Procol Harum), and urinated upon by a lukewarm assemblage of beligerent flower-cretins. Entertainment is left up to a very few white groups who know how to act onstage, such as the Who, the Stones, the Rascals, and most of the English blues people. Art is left pretty much up to the Beatles and Dylan...
JOHN HAMMOND, the great blues singer, leapt scornfully upon me for designating myself as an "underground" musician...
Boston was infected early with the Syphilis of Success, Status Anxiety. There never was a Boston Sound, a music with its own definable character, and that is partly the fault of the musicians, partly the fault of the expectations of the audiences. They preyed upon their music with the teeth of unfair comparison, and took out their boredom as a token of their hipness. The musicians were wasted away by self-consciousness. These are to some degree the afflictions being visited upon the whole rock scene today, out Boston consumed itself in its rage to be recognized. It forgot that...
...coeducational life at Harvard mandatory. Since, under Harvard's residential structure, the Houses are the center of social life, this change must take place within the House system. The lack of other institutions (e.g., a student union) that might provide for informal coeducational contacts places even greater emphasis upon the necessity for change in the coeducational role of the Houses...
...associate professor of English, would require the dean to open the gallery to students at the request of a Faculty committee, including SFAC, or at the request of HUC, HRPC, RUS, or GSA. The SFAC resolution also asked the dean to designate certain students to speak at Faculty meetings upon the request of any Faculty committee, including SFAC...