Word: baton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike Reiner, Ormandy uses no baton. He swiveled and swayed on the podium, sweeping his arms in long, scythe-like motions, which blurred individual phrases but drew from his orchestra the longspun melodic line that is Ormandy's chief delight. The audience applauded briskly, and most critics splashed their reviews with such words as "energetic." "singing," "blazing." But for all the blaze, Ormandy's tempi were questionable, and his lush handling of the strings in the Bach reminded Chicago Sun-Times Critic Robert C. Marsh of "chocolate syrup" with ''a whipped-cream decoration." Ormandy achieved...
...even more painful than my sciatica." For years, audiences approached screen music with what the industry regards as a more eupeptic attitude: they ignored it. Although isolated scores such as Max Steiner's music for Gone With the Wind caught the public fancy, Hollywood's rule-of-baton used-to be that a good score is one the audience does not hear.* Now film scores have become big sellers on the pop market. The change was foreshadowed by The Third Man theme and by Dimitri Tiomkin's High Noon; both tunes were dramatically part of the movies...
...became a close friend and horseback-riding crony of Napoleon, the scene shifted to Brawn. The team matched its former record of 45 seconds flat, giving Brain another go at Napoleon, but Doher missed again, and by this time the relay boys were tired. Twice the baton was dropped as it changed hands, and the battle was lost. As a consolation prize, Doher won a framed letter signed by Napoleon, then invited his relay helpers out for some consoling champagne...
Rites of Passage. As a 5 ft. 9 in. freshman on the Baton Rouge High School team, Pettit was so awkward he was cut from the squad. Then he began to grow, by his senior year was 6 ft. 7 in., and, although he moved like an unhinged giraffe, scored enough to get scholarship bids from some two dozen colleges. Pettit chose Louisiana State University, was an All-American for two years in a row, and in 1954 was the first-draft choice of the St. Louis Hawks. A handsome, lithe giant, Bob Pettit soon found that the pros play...
...Crimson two-mile relay team finished second in a four way race, losing only to Yale. Bill Thompson led off for the varsity, and after running last for the first part of his half-mile leg, he came back to grab a five-yard lead before handing the baton to captain Pete Reider...