Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prolonged study of choreography and performing and among the students, fiercely professional devotion, become routine. The happy result is a group of young dancers who know what they're up to. Every other year during the winter term the best of the Bennington dancers set out on a dance tour of the east coast to show their stuff...
...wife of a military man had written the letter concerning the "heartbreaking" pictures of servicemen on leave from Viet Nam [Jan. 5]. I'll thank God for five days when I'll know my husband is safe. I find worrying about the other 360 days of his tour very depressing. R & R is one brief respite from the terrible burden of responsibility that any officer lives with day and night. Winnie Poteete says wives could use rest and recuperation. If you will stack 24 of your hours against 24 of his, Mrs. Poteete...
...Algeria, a railroad in Iraq, a machine-tool plant in Iran, and a fish-meal factory in Yemen. Russian culture follows the Red flag. In Alexandria, young girls are quitting belly-dance classes and attending the recently opened Russian ballet school instead. Soviet folk-dance groups and circus troupes tour the major Arab cities. Russian films play at the cinemas and on state-owned television, and Soviet books and periodicals that are skillfully prepared in Arabic now cram Arab bookstores. Arab universities now stress Russian language courses...
...conductor who hops continents to keep engagements. Besides normal coast-to-coast shuttling, he detours to make recordings and television films, frequently darts off to orchestra podiums and festival halls from London to Tel Aviv. Last spring he led the Los Angeles Philharmonic on a U.S. tour; after each six days of traveling, while his musicians rested for a day, Mehta crisscrossed the nation to conduct a traveling Met production of Turandot in Dallas, Detroit, Cleveland and Atlanta...
...reflection of his penchant for tilting in public at sacred cultural institutions. Then Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks: the insouciant wink-and-nudge of a joker who likes to imitate other people over the telephone, and who once threw an entire hotel into chaos during a concert tour by sneaking around the corridors early in the morning and changing all the breakfast orders...