Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brass section is currently the strongest part of the Ensemble, the French horns and lead cornets being particularly fine. With the exception of the oboe and the first stand clarinents, the woodwinds were sometimes painfully shrill, and attacks were not always clean. Perhaps because of inferior equipment rather than lack of playing skill, the percussion section did not have the clean staccato required by Persichetti, Kurka in the Good Soldier Schweik, and Barber in his Commando March...
...memory of Phenix City's past gives real thrust to the new effort. Says Otis Taff, 57, a grocer and county commissioner: "Oh. we have a few who would like it the other way. but a majority want the town to be clean. We know we can't be an average town with average people doing average things. We have to be outstanding people doing outstanding things to overcome our past." Adds Finance Commissioner James Gresham, 39: "The amazing thing about the folks of Phenix City is that they all want something a little bit better. You know...
...that were exchangeable for merchandise at the million-dollar Phenix City Plaza Shopping Center; a weekly newspaper glowingly reported plans for the second annual Christmas parade, featuring "seven bands, 18 floats, clowns, entertainers, riders on horseback"; and the sounds and sights of building were everywhere. And all this good clean fun, all this civic enterprise, was taking place in what was. not too long ago, the tawdriest sin city left...
Then, in 1954, Reformer Albert L. Patterson won the Democratic nomination for Alabama attorney general on the promise to clean up Phenix City; before he could take office, he was shot to death on Phenix City's streets. (His son John won the office, later became Governor.) That tore it; public indignation followed, a errand jury went to work. By the end of the year, Phenix City's bawdyhouses were padlocked, and the National Guard was called in to burn the slot machines...
...married men share with their wives (children are not invited). The wives cook in community kitchens or on hot plates in their rooms, divide their time between shopping in the university gastronom and swapping language lessons with Russians. Bachelors live with Russians, Africans or students from Soviet satellites. All clean their own rooms and perform communal chores, such as K.P. and phone duty, assigned by the floor starosta, an elected "elder," or monitor, common to Russian group living...