Word: tangoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gambols through the tango, the twist, and an agitated bit of neo-'20s dance nonsense called "the kangaroo." After his appearance in this wan swan song of the Broadway season, Cesare Siepi can always go back to the Met; Karnilova will dance again. In Rome's palmier days, the rest of Bravo Giovanni would have been thrown to the lions...
...astronaut, "come over here and meet the ambassador." After dinner, the U.S. Air Force's 30-piece "Strolling Strings" came into the hallway where guests were mingling. Linus and Ava Pauling promptly swirled into a Viennese waltz. Other couples joined in, and Pauling, flushed with success, ordered a tango. About that time Jack and Jackie entered and-since there's not supposed to be dancing at the White House unless it has been formally scheduled-appeared startled. "Look, Jack," said Jackie, "they're dancing"-and, for a while, the dancing continued...
...outlets for serious social protest in the country. Since the First World War, political and cultural radicalism had followed separate paths in the United States; in more sentimental pre-war days, you could meet radicals from Max Eastman's Masses and Wobblies like Big Bill Haywood at Greenwich Village tango teas--and if there was something frivolous and arty about such political reformers, there was also a close identification on their part with cultural reform. Literature was an ally in the class struggle. After the war, this was no longer true; the political radicals and the Bohemians drifted apart...
...Harvard graduate, Composer Anderson started out with more classical ambitions, built his reputation as a "Tin Pan longhair" only after a nine-year stretch writing arrangements for the Boston Pops Orchestra. He turns out about three of his capsule compositions each year, numbers such as Blue Tango, Trumpeter's Lullaby, Sand Paper Ballet. (He also wrote the music for one Broadway musical-Goldilocks.) His method of composition is as surprising as his success: "There's nothing like getting a good title," says he, "and working backwards...
...over a copy of a television speech by Castro's Foreign Minister Raul Roa, and stiffened with horror. Argentina's President Frondizi, as Roa expressed it, was not only "a viscous concretion of all human excrescences"; he was also "the villain of a badly composed tango...