Word: vagabondism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year's most interesting musical evenings. The program booklets pictured the famous, flaxen froth of hair and the powerful profile of Conductor Leopold Stokowski. The text of the work to be performed was taken from low and lofty verses, written by 13th century wandering scholars, vagabond poets and runaway monks, collected under the title, Carmina Burana.* The music was by Carl Orff, considered by Germans to be their most important living composer. U.S. conductors also consider him important: they scheduled no less than 15 Carminas this season...
...large cities on the level with the virtuous and good man? . . . These Arabs steeped in crime and vice, to be placed on a level with industrious population is insulting and degrading to the community. . . . I hold up my hands against a proceeding which confers on the idle, vicious, degraded vagabond a right at the expense of the poor and industrious portion of the commonwealth...
...than by their operation, soon took to skipping off to dance on the outskirts of town. Eventually he ran away. At 15 he got to Granada, lived with gypsies for four years and learned all the old dances in their pure forms. Then he took off for a famed vagabond tour throughout Europe, from the cabarets of Paris to the coffeehouses of Istanbul...
Oldtime Crooner Rudy ("The Vagabond Lover") Vallee, still crying "Heigh-ho, everybody" in the nightclubs, dropped into Port Arthur, Ont. for a one-night stand and hinted that he might not go on forever. At 52, he said, he was getting tired and thinking of retiring in a year or two to his Hollywood home. A reporter asked how old he felt. Sighed Rudy: "Like an old race horse regarding the ice wagon...
Gary Cooper, cast as a kind of seafaring vagabond, alights on the island, where a missionary of unspecified denomination (Barry Jones) has set up a kind of puritan police state that would have made Calvin's Geneva look like Las Vegas. The natives are marched to church by club-wielding wardens, bronzed maidens must be fully clothed at all times, and boys and girls who go swimming together are flogged. In this unhappy Eden, Cooper soon starts a-rebellion that is visually a lot more interesting than any saloon brawl in which he ever thrashed a bunch of cattle...