Word: baton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baton Twirlers...
...second-rate Astaire-the outflung white-gloved hands (without the gloves), the staccato rhythms tapped out on a walking stick like a hollow third leg, and the agitated centipede footwork interrupted with dazzling toothpasty smiles. The funniest number casts Montand as a feverish symphony conductor who snaps his baton, his Beethoven concert and his career in two to waltz off with a girl who cares only for waltzes. In sentimental Parisian songs, Montand runs the risk of sounding like a younger Chevalier, but winds through his own Paris as naturally as the Seine...
...here and there snapped the punctuating rap of snares. Off to one side, a little lipstuckup ten-year-old girl in a resplendent black uniform spun a shiny stick. Her perspiring mother hovered near by, brandishing a hairbrush. The little girl pursed her lips and swung her baton with the same concentration and faultless precision that another might devote to a game of jacks. The baton shot up and around as the girl flipped it into a neck roll, then an elbow roll, then an elbow roll with a throw-out, then a shoulder roll with a cutback...
Ventilated Curriculum. But Schuman proved an able administrator and an adroit innovator. Under his baton were launched the famed Juilliard String Quartet, a department of dance, fresh courses in the theory of music. Along with their technical lessons in music, students at Juilliard were encouraged to study counterpoint and harmony of a different kind: sociology and race relations. "Musical education has to be ventilated," explained Schuman. "We must develop educated people who are musicians in order to develop music...
Atlanta's Police Chief Herbert T. Jenkins had anticipated every conceivable possibility of trouble, armed his men with a helicopter, dogs, and an armored car. As if to symbolize how most white people felt, a pretty drum majorette furiously attacked a sign-toting segregationist with her baton. The cops were so watchful that on the opening day of school they moved to arrest two loitering men who turned out to be FBI agents. The police did pull in six demonstrators, who got sentences of 30 to 60 days that were reduced, when the excitement subsided, to nothing...