Word: mortons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money ($4.98 list price, $1 more for stereo) the frustrated conductor gets some bandshell marshmallows-Richard Rodgers' Victory at Sea, Khachaturian's Sabre Dance, Fantasia on "Greensleeves"-preconducted for him by Arthur Fiedler, Morton Gould, Robert Russell Bennett. (Any armchair connoisseur of the Viennese repertory will find Conductor Fiedler's tempi in the Fledermaus waltzes aggravatingly slow, but Gould's version of Mexican Hat Dance is so inspiring that it may result in dislocated shoulders...
Other contributions include Miss Dakin's "Pigs," a review of the Harvard lecture system, a criticism of Ezra Pound and Sherry Martinelly by Guy M. Davenport, Jr. '59, and a discussion by Morton H. Levine, teaching fellow in General Education, of experiences with students...
Each of the two national party chairmen made a significant concession to the opposition. Setting aside a G.O.P. practice that has been observed almost invariably since 1946, the new Republican chairman, Kentucky's Senator Thruston B. Morton, announced that, personally he will continue to refer to the enemy as "the Democratic Party," instead of continuing the "Democrat Party" label applied by his predecessors. For his part, Democratic Chairman Paul Butler confessed to a high political crime: he has sometimes voted for a Republican. "But in each case." explained candid Ticket-Splitter Butler, "I have always prayed for forgiveness...
Returning to Washington, the delegation carried Ike's word to a meeting of the full committee. By acclamation, tall, trim (6 ft. 2 in., 185 Ibs.) Thruston Morton, 51, was elected, summoned to make his maiden speech. Said the new boss from the Bluegrass: "In 1960 we are going to have proven champions carrying our banner. We are going to have proven stake winners. There'll be no selling platers in our barn...
Next, Old Guardsman Barry Goldwater, though he had been less than enthusiastic about having Good Ikeman Morton as national chairman, took the microphone to wish him well and urge him to steer the Republican Party to the right. As for the Democrats, said Goldwater, "there is no Democratic Party. There is a shell that has been crawled into by labor, led by that redhead from Detroit named Reuther. We've got to stop being nice to them. We've called them liberals. They aren't liberals they are radicals...