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...Only the sombre piano introduction and a taped monologue about activism and decency by Harvard philosopher Dr Cornel West take the trumpeter out of the spotlight. ★★★☆☆...
...There’s no such thing as a quiet lunch with Cornel West....
...Randy Brecker matched Blanchard for taste and tone on trumpet, and saxophonist Bill Evans got in some decent licks, but the rhythm section, jam-band stalwarts Medeski, Martin and Wood, were heavy-handed...
...Cornel Gabara’s staging dabbled cleverly in newsreel projections, minimalist charades and surreal gestures. The result was engaging, even when it blurred coherence....
...Ten years later, Franklin was marching with Martin Luther King on Selma, Alabama....
...Cornel West, the prominent Princeton scholar who is African-American and supports Mr Obama, says the lawmaker has “worked through” race in the tradition of Martin Luther King, the slain civil rights leader...
...Nothing is small about Harvard, except the size of its student body, but that does not cool the emotions aroused, as Summers found, starting early in his tenure with Cornel West, the African-American historian...
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