Word: fifteen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Luce Professorship, funded from a $50,000 Luce Foundation Grant, is one of fifteen established at American universities...
...origins in the artistic and cultural ferment of that era. Our popular culture has conditioned us for the epehmeral, but the emergence of the Art Ensemble as a tangible force in jazz is in fact as much a culmination as beginning. The AEC has worked together for over fifteen years, and during that time they have released over 20 albums, as well as an equal number of records under individual Art Ensemble members' names. Great Black Music may have flourished in obscurity, but it flourished all the same; today's growing AEC audience enjoys a mature artistic form born...
...Lester Bowie comments, there has always been a receptive audience for the group's work, and the size of that audience is of no great consequence. The music which so excites critics today is essentially unchanged since the days when the Art Ensemble played for groups of ten or fifteen devotees back in Chicago. Through years of poverty and even a self-imposed exile, the Art Ensemble of Chicago has remained scrupulously true to their original and challenging language of expression; their longevity is a tribute to the perseverence of art. The wonderful thing is that now, at last...
...that can be extracted from coal, and the petroleum that lies trapped in shale rock. Fifteen percent or so would be spent on aid to low-income families that would suffer from rising fuel prices. The remaining 5% would go for further development of the nation's mass-transit system...
Last week the industry's critics got some powerful new ammunition. Fifteen of the nation's largest oil companies released first-quarter profit figures, and they showed an acceleration of the winter-long earnings surge. Included in the group were six of the so-called Seven Sisters,* the richest and most powerful oil companies in the world, which, more so than their smaller competitors, have huge investments in all four aspects of the business: drilling, transporting, refining and marketing...