Word: camptown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program also included Berlioz, Beethoven, William Schuman). After a lengthy lecture, Teacher Bernstein, microphone clipped to his dress shirt, played a few snatches of the American songs that Composer Ives stitched into his symphony (including, in addition to the pea-green freshmen, America the Beautiful, Camptown Races, Turkey in the Straw). Then, turning to his orchestra, Bernstein whipped it through a fine performance, his hips swaying, his arms flinging wide in a characteristic expression of musical frenzy. A youthful work (1897-1901) by Connecticut's late, largely self-taught Modernist Ives (an insurance broker most of his active life...
Until a decade ago, harness racing was a minor, pastoral sport, largely confined to county fairgrounds and camptown tracks. Then the trotters were brought to the big city, presented to the racing public at night in big, new floodlighted tracks, and built up to a major sporting enterprise. Today harness racing is a $430 million-a-year business, the fastest-growing spectator sport in the U.S. With so much money and public interest, it was almost inevitable that the bumpkin sport would catch the eye of big-city racketeers. Last week in New York, as a major harness-racing scandal...
...else. Actually, the chorales are typically Ivesian abstractions; if Ives, a kind of John Marin of music, quotes from anything, it is that old 19th Century standard, the Long Green Organ Book. If there is a "bad joke" anywhere, it comes in the rousing finale where Ives gets De Camptown Races, Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean and some barn dance fiddling all going at once...
...Camptown split into two groups, the conservatives who set their alarms for 6:50 and had a good breakfast before they set out to catch the 8:04 commuter train, and the mad-dashers who lolled till after 7. But by the time they reached the station, dressed in the standard uniform of gabardine topcoat and mouse-grey hat, they were pretty indistinguishable. For these were young men planning to get ahead in the world, ex-G.I.s to a man, whose stay at Camptown, they assured one another, was "only temporary...
...amusing. But since It's Only Temporary is also supposed to be a novel, Mergendahl feels obligated to write about people. The result is a soupy and inept story about Veteran Don Cousins and his wife Shelley, who cannot decide whether to save money by sticking to Camptown and his job or take the long chance of striking out for Montana and starting a business of their own. It turns out to be a case of dull people getting in the way of an interesting setting. Though he hasn't made very much of his subject, Author Mergendahl...