Word: offbeaters
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...makings of a first-rate organization. Helped by a $765,000 budget (twice that of 1965), Shaw has already bolstered the ranks with additional musicians, instilled greater rigor and purpose into rehearsals, formed a new 60-voice chorus, and expanded the season to include chamber music, an offbeat "Connoisseur Series" and some light promenade concerts. His programs for the coming year balance Atlanta's traditionally romantic fare with more music from the baroque and classic periods as well as 20th century works ranging from Bartok to Gunther Schuller. "He's brought a lot more discipline to this group...
Hardy Minority. Considering that the Beatles' trademark is offbeat irreverence, their effect on mature audiences is odd ly amusing. If the teeny-boppers made the Beatles plaster gods, many adults make them pop prophets, and tend to theorize solemnly, instead of seriously, about their significance. The Rev. B. Davie Napier, dean of the chapel at Stanford University, says that "no entity hits as many sensitive people as these guys do." Napier, who has dwelt in past sermons on Yellow Submarine and Eleanor Rigby, is convinced that Sgt. Pepper "lays bare the stark loneliness and terror of these lonely times...
...Louis, a Soviet citizen who is married to a British wom an, works as a part-time correspondent in Moscow for the London Evening News, lives auspiciously well, and sometimes does unofficial chores for the Kremlin. Eventually, Louis was forced to turn to a publisher whose reputation is as offbeat as his own: Alex Flegon, a Rumanian refugee who operates a small press in London and specializes in smuggling dubious literary material in and out of the Soviet Union...
...with Hugh O'Brian as a cowpoke who hunts big game with a rope instead of a rifle. Also planned or in production at Tors's studios and animal compounds, scattered from North Miami and Saugus, Calif., to Nairobi and the Bahamas' Lyford Cay, are such offbeat features as Hello Down There, a futuristic comedy about a family living in a deep-sea bungalow, and Natural Enemies, the saga of a young couple adopted by a pride of lions. This fall, Tors will have five TV shows in the early-evening time slot, five more in reruns...
Hinckle also quarreled with Keating over story ideas. While Hinckle favored conventional exposés of the CIA and the Warren Commission Report, Keating proposed more offbeat investigations. He suggested sending an undercover man to Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish to poke around a rumored "slave camp" for civil rights workers. Not only that, charged a Ramparts man, he even wanted to equip the gumshoe with a hollow heel containing a compass-so that he could find his way back again...