Word: impromptu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while attendants in bright red garrison caps watched in helpless bewilderment. At least one distinguished rider had his coat buttons pulled off in the crush, but a fine time was had by all. and at the end of the ride one exuberant straphanger showed his pleasure by doing an impromptu acrobatic act on the bars provided for standees...
...choruses combined for three excerpts from Bach's B Minor Mass. As might have been expected, the Radcliffe sound often swamped Amherst--despite the ladies' obvious unfamiliarity with some passages. In addition, Paine Hall's overbright acoustics effectively smudged the counterpoint. The total impression was more of an impromptu singing party than a concert finale. ROSERY M. SIMON
...symphonic parts of the work were less exciting, but everybody, from the musicians onstage to the last hipster in the auditorium, had a fine time. Conductor Reiner, who started off his career as a percussionist, was so pleased that he took time off during a rehearsal for an impromptu jam session (see cut). Chicago News Critic Irving Sablosky welcomed the concert as a "meeting place ... for twelve-tone music and its more popular cousin, 'progressive jazz' . . . This wasn't the end, man, but it was an interesting beginning...
Free transportation for the populace was the answer of President Paul Magloire to an impromptu strike by the drivers of the share-the-ride station wagons, used in Haiti as buses and taxis combined. The drivers were protesting against a government measure that seemed to thrust at their very livelihood: a steep boost in the police fines they regularly expect and richly deserve. Few had bothered actually to read the new scale of fines, but according to the telejiol, Haiti's famed word-of-mouth communications network, merely sassing a cop could cost $24 instead of the traditional...
Welterweight (5 ft. 4 in., 140 Ibs.) Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, 86, came out on the wrong end of an impromptu brawl with a heavyweight visitor to his Manhattan office. The intruder: his son Berwyn, 30, a physically cultured brute (6 ft., 190 Ibs.) who blamed his father for causing him to lose his job as a dancing instructor. The elder Macfadden's version: "He came into my office with blood in his eye, and . . . before I knew what was happening, he slapped my face and hit me." Berwyn's story: "He tried to shoot...