Word: wayout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alto Saxophonist McLean and his sextet spend much of this album on the wayout side of traditional harmonic borders, yet their energetic improvisation never quite descends to pandemonium. The group's most piercingly effective exchanges between alto, trumpet, trombone and the rhythm sections take place on Conversation Point and Erdu. On a track called Soul, they lay down a blues background for Poetess Barbara Simmons as she recites her tribute to blackness...
...defection was a regulation, adopted at last year's N.C.A.A. convention, barring athletes with academic averages below 1.6 (out of a possible 4) from N.C.A.A.-sponsored events. A 1.6 average is equivalent to a C-,and the rule sounds reasonable enough. But is an A in "recreation" at Wayout State, say, equivalent to a D in comparative philology at Harvard? And, more important, what about the principle involved? As Princeton's President Robert Goheen put it, the Ivies do not believe that "an athletic organization should seek to determine academic policy." At last count, more than 100 other...
...other hand, makes you glad that you live in 1964. Its wondrously wayout building is nothing more than a monstrous egg perched atop a modern steel structure. The ingenious People Wall lifts you hydraulically to the egg's underbelly, where huge bomb-bay doors open...
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