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...with rhythmic help from teachers like Saxophonist Bob Houlehan. In junior highs and high schools throughout the U.S., where old-fashioned swing over rock-rhythm sections is the vogue, an estimated 16,000 jazz bands are taking over from marching bands as an intramural way of life. Says Irving Bard, music director of the West Babylon Junior High School in Long Island: "My rehearsal band comes in every morning at 7:30 a.m., and the absenteeism is zero...
...towering figure physically as well as artistically, Sir Tyrone began his long affiliation with the Old Vic in 1933. Later he helped launch the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ont., and the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. He was an innovator who occasionally armed the bard's soldiers with machine guns and once staged Troilus and Cressida as an Edwardian piece, replacing Greeks with Prussians. Though he also directed Broadway hits, Sir Tyrone castigated the Great White Way as "a murderous, vulgar jungle...
...Columnist Don Marquis sometimes found his space occupied by the work of archy, a lowly lower-case friend, archy never had the strength to depress the upper-case key, and his punctuation was atonal in any key. It was understandable; though he had been a "vers libre bard" before his death, his soul had transmigrated into the body of an ambitious cockroach. It was assumed that archy died again along with his creator...
Poetasters may now join the technologically unemployed: these freaky fragments belong to The Meditation of IBM 7094-7040 DCS, the masterwork of a computer. It is flawed poetry, full of silly similes and mixed metaphors. Still, Yale English Professor Marie Borroff has undeniably tutored a binary bard...
...employees were laid off last year as firms cut their costs to match their reduced volume. Many of those people have found permanent jobs with banks and insurance companies. If the trading frenzy grows, brokerage back offices "are going to end up in the same predicament again," warns Sam Bard, president of the Committee for Investors' Protection. Plus ça change, Wall Street has yet to prove that it has learned from old errors...