Word: hoedown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Western Europe watched last week's political hoedown with its heart in its mouth. But Europe's politicians were learning that they need not worry much about the tumult and shouting of the U.S. political campaign. If they had learned enough, they watched one man. That man was Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg...
...symphony he picked is really Gillis' sixth, but because it is so short (14 minutes) Gillis decided to call it Symphony 5½. Its four movements-Perpetual Emotion, Spiritual?, Scherzofrenia, Conclusion!-jump from low-down to hoedown, owe more to Gershwin than to Bach. Gillis gave the third movement its punning title "because it can't quite make up its mind whether to go the Haydn-Mozart route...
...Japanese, who have always been good mimics (and want to be good democrats), were busily tilting at an old American folkway: the square dance. "Caller"* at an experimental hoedown in Nagasaki was Fred Niblo, an A.M.G. director who thought that a dash of do-se-do was just the thing for the community soul...
Some of the girls had been waiting patiently five years for the party. Now their men were returning from the war and they were aquiver with anticipation of Montreal's most spectacular society hoedown...