Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grave & Gay. Nature was kind and the day bloomed sunny and unseasonably balmy. The ceremony itself was brief and moving. There were some memorable sights on the neoclassic stand in front of the Capitol: Eisenhower's solemn demeanor as he repeated the 41 words which elevated him to the highest office in the world; Mamie's proud tears as she watched him take the oath; Bob Taft's stony expression as he watched another man assume the job he had sought so long; Harry Truman staring at the floor of the platform and whispering to Mamie; Bess...
Over the vast, silent crowd on Capitol Hill and through homes and offices across the land, the voice rang sharp & clear: "I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, do solemnly swear . . . [to] preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States-so help me God." Black-robed Chief Justice Vinson stepped back, and the new President of the U.S. stood alone...
...number called The Bunny Hop, in which every verse ends with "Hop! Hop! Hop!" For Anthony, it all started last spring, when he heard that the Coke set of San Francisco's Balboa High School had worked up the dance. Anthony contrived a tuneless tune, recorded it (for Capitol), ordered a batch of fuzzy bunny ears to give a touch of costume and started plugging song & dance across the U.S. In cooperation with parents, who regard the dance as relatively sedate, if energetic, disk jockeys and Capitol press-agents have built The Bunny Hop into a minor teen...
City of Glass (Stan Kenton; Capitol LP). Somebody obviously threw a stone at this musical city; it is full of prismatic rubble and glittering shards of sound. But its four movements are among the best of Kenton's symphonic experiments, frequently stimulating (some of them closely related to such modern symphonists as Roger Sessions), and played with a virtuosity that a symphony orchestra might envy...
...Capitol Cloakroom (Fri. 10 p.m., CBS). Interviews with eight freshmen Senators...