Word: vanguards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...School was not conspiring to stifle the ghetto. Few dispute the value of detached research, and for all its present prominence, large-scale ghetto activity is a very recent phenomenon. If the Ed School had jumped into the cities to take Roxbury's hand,it would have joined the vanguard of reforming institutions...
Martin Luther King's final dream was a mighty Poor People's March on Washington, originally scheduled to begin late last month. The immensely detailed logistical preparations for the march continued despite King's assassination. This week his successor, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, will lead a vanguard of 100 march leaders into the capital, starting what one aide called "the greatest nonviolent demonstration since Gandhi's salt march...
...there was no enemy to be seen, though an occasional artillery or mortar round still whistled in on the camp. What the Marines were watching was the approach of the vanguard of Operation Pegasus, a relief force of 30,000 Marines, Army troopers and South Vietnamese soldiers. The relief columns advanced down National Route 9 to ward Khe Sanh almost without opposition; they were accompanied by heliborne troopers, who were the first to reach the camp, landing on Khe Sanh's pocked runway. Thus, after 76 harrowing days, the siege of Khe Sanh last week came to an ironic...
BEETHOVEN: SONATA NO. 32 IN C MINOR, OP. 111 (Vanguard). Australian Pianist Bruce Hungerford won critical hurrahs in 1965 when he played five Beethoven sonatas in Carnegie Hall, and the reason is now engraved on vinyl. His interpretation of this late (written five years before the master's death) great two-movement sonata is extremely moving-the first furious buildup dissolving into a tender singing adagio that transcends all that went before...
...trove. Stores from coast to coast are advertising ruffles and the Harlow look; the late show provides a touchstone by rerunning the movie classics; and Bonnie and Clyde is mandatory in all extracurricular undergraduate courses. But as is often the case with trends, artists have been well in the vanguard of popular taste, and some of the most gifted have been on a '30s kick for years (see color opposite...