Word: baton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peasants last week turned out across the length and breadth of France in protest demonstrations. In the Breton town of Quimper, farmers in clogs, smocks and broad-brimmed velvet hats blockaded the railway station for three hours, were hurled back from the city hall only by police baton charges. At Sens, 60 miles south of Paris, another 3,000 peasants fought a pitched battle with steel-helmeted riot cops, shouting, "We will not be serfs of the Fifth Republic...
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (Lisa Delia Casa; the Chicago Symphony, conducted by Fritz Reiner; RCA Victor, mono and stereo). Even in the flood of Mahler-year recordings, Conductor Reiner's brilliant, surgically clean reading of the Fourth is a standout. Under his baton, the massive Mahler sonorities remain remarkably clear and unclotted, and what often smacks of bombast in other performances emerges as music of dignity and grandeur. Soprano Delia Casa sings the folklike melody of the fourth movement with warmth and charm...
...Stellenbosch, the university town 31 miles away, 5,000 Africans tried to march on the police station to turn in their passbooks and seek arrest, but were dispersed by a police baton charge...
Passive resistance hardened in the South last week. Some 4,000 students at segregated Southern University (all Negro) in Baton Rouge, La. threatened to withdraw because 18 students had been suspended for sitdowns. Students in Greensboro, N.C. went back to picketing after Woolworth's and Kress's refused to integrate their lunch counters. In Marshall, Texas police broke up a crowd of Negro demonstrators by training a fire hose on them. But while police clamped down on demonstrations in the South, sympathy demonstrations by white students spread over campuses in the North...
...when the 46-year-old composer himself was at the piano and his old friend Fritz Reiner on the podium. Since then, the work has rarely been performed in Europe and never by a major U.S. orchestra. Last week it made a long overdue reappearance under the baton of Conductor Reiner, and this time the stepchild clearly strode with a giant's tread...