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When Hubert Humphrey called him a "one-issue candidate," McCarthy responded by hitting hard on housing, unemployment and civil rights, linking these three issues into a plea to integrate the suburbs and get Negroes into the U.S. mainstream. Discussing Viet Nam, he reiterated his opposition to bombing north of the DMZ, but saw "no quick or easy steps" for settling the war. McCarthy rejected the notion of a precipitous pullout, observing that the U.S. should draw back to a somewhat vague point "where you can expect the South Viet Nam government to assume major responsibility...
...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Tenement" focuses on nine families living an impoverished existence in a predominantly Negro slum neighborhood isolated from mainstream Chicago. Repeat...
Inspiration & Speakeasies. After serving in the infantry in World War I, where he says he got his nickname for bravery on the French front, he moved into Harlem's musical mainstream. With Waller and Johnson, he soon reigned over the local circuit of speakeasies, raucous rent parties and all-night "carving contests," in which pianists, cheered on by audiences that included many musicians, pulled out their full bag of tricks in attempts to top each other. "Those fellows," says Cornetist Rex Stewart, "were the inspiration of most of the guys on the New York scene, many of whom became...
...course straight. As for drugs, I am 17 years old and am looking forward to experiencing the psychedelic field. I am already tired of viewing objects from the same patterned angles and perspectives, that is, from bottom, top, sideways -I want to get inside things, in the mainstream, bloodstream-sightsee the system, so to speak. Don't put us down too fast -we merely want to explore countries that you have only sailed around...
IVES: PIANO SONATA NO. I (1902-1910) (RCA Victor). Charles Ives was such a rebel that his music bears little resemblance to the placid mainstream of turn-of-the-century American sounds. Yet, as demonstrated in this intriguing recording of his First Piano Sonata, he is no composer to snoot. The work is raw, unpolished, sometimes uproariously funny; its New World vigor and intelligence cannot help being appealing. Pianist William Masselos imparts the work's spirit with appropriate improvisational candor...