Word: batons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cudlipp, as "a very good first violin, but never really cast to be a conductor." Nevertheless, when King was deposed in a surprise boardroom revolt in 1968, I.P.C. directors picked Cudlipp as his successor. Ailing I.P.C. continued to flounder, so Cudlipp decided that he ought to turn in his baton and, as he put it, "get out my Stradivarius." Last week the Reed Group, a major British paper manufacturer, received government approval to take over I.P.C. for $304 million in stock and debentures...
Harvard was not so fortunate in the mile relay. A mix-up in a baton pass between Gillis and Downer caused Gillis to fall and drop the baton and then get spiked. Harvard had been leading but ended up last...
...gaps between Middle America and the vanguard of fashion are deep. The daughters of Middle America learn baton twirling, not Hermann Hesse. Middle Americans line up in the cold each Christmas season at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall; the Rockettes, not Oh! Calcutta! are their entertainment. While the rest of the nation's youth has been watching Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy, Middle America's teen-agers have been taking in John Wayne for the second or third time in The Green Berets. Middle Americans have been largely responsible for more than 10,000 Christmas cards sent to General...
...refined, precisely shaded instrumental effects as the perpetual murmuring of a soul in reverie. At best, this approach makes Debussy into an intriguing original of French music. At worst, it produces a kind of clair de lunacy: conductors seem to be using a stick of incense rather than a baton, and listeners are enveloped in a pastel effulgence of perfumed sound...