Word: baton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East Baton Rouge, La., two young men who visited a fellow civil rights demonstrator in jail were arrested themselves and charged with violating Louisiana's law against "criminal anarchy." Passed during World War I and updated during World War II, the law makes it a crime, punishable by up to ten years at hard labor, to teach or advocate "subversion, opposition or destruction" of the federal or state government. The principal evidence against the youths appeared to be that they brought their friend a copy of The Ugly American...
Under Walker's prodding baton the band resisted the temptation to dissipate in the quiet passages and executed phases lyrically and cleanly. But while carefully molding individual sections of the work, Walker and the band could not overcome the problem of disunity inherent in the score. The "Overture" sounded like two separate compositions, and the three other movements seemed to have been written by different composers...
...podium he is athletic but correct. His baton sweeps in wide, generous arcs and his left hand constantly beckons music from the air. His body dips and sways like a dancer's, and his classic profile flashes now right, now left, like a lighthouse beacon. He has a nearly perfect ear for balancing orchestra and singers, and the Met chorus never sounds better than it does with Schippers conducting. Though emotion sometimes drives him into hurried tempi, he has a strong sense of opera that keeps his music in sympathetic concert with the libretto-which he soundlessly sings through...
...Girls (NBC), a comedy about a dance act that tours Europe. Most preadolescents have traveled enough to wince at the show's gauche international flavorings, and the humor is historic ("The count? Tell him to keep counting."), but Daddy will settle for Diahn, a tall, red-haired ex-baton twirler at the University of Miami...
...colleges have always had their ancient rivalries, marching bands and majorettes. But their battle cry was usually "three yards and a cloud of dust." The pros learned that bands can be hired, Copa girls can be taught to twirl a baton, and all rivalries get ancient after a while. When they also discovered the forward pass-the tantalizer, the equalizer, something everyone in the stands could see-they were on their way to owning the world. The forward pass was not invented by the pros; it had been around since 1906. But in the hands of such quarterbacks as Sammy...