Word: vanguardism
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...will, the demonstration was transformed into a peaceful, highly organized march. The 15,000 faithful that assembled at the institute left behind their plastic-bag gas masks and clubs and grenades. As they marched out to demonstrate, burly Boy Scouts ranged themselves abreast as a vanguard, staves held waist high, to keep the crowd in line. In two short hours, the promenade was over, as smoothly orchestrated in its tranquillity as the previous week's mobs had been in their mayhem...
...Tien Phong (Vanguard), monthly organ of Viet Nam's Communist Party, the Reds confirmed the growing feeling in Saigon that they are not only being mauled militarily but doing badly in the political war as well. Until last year, when the U.S. began its massive intervention, they had skillfully nurtured peasant sympathy. The new military pressures forced the Viet Cong to raise taxes, broaden the conscription of rural youths, and make other stiff demands on their peasant converts. The buildup of U.S. forces and the pacification of rural areas, Tien Phong noted, has, "practically speaking, created great difficulty...
SANDY BULL, an accomplished guitarist, plays folk music as well as jazz, classical works and his own too-lengthy ragalike musings. His Inventions (Vanguard) includes such surprises as a Bach gavotte played on an electric guitar with an organlike sonority, a 14th century ballad performed on oud, banjo and guitar, and a swinging selection of 20th century rhythm and blues...
...tired of these surface exercises. For those still in the vanguard, Les Abysses may prove fulfilling. For the rest of us, those panderers of romanticism, Goddard and Truffaut, will soon return to the Brattle...
Other unearthed P.D.Q. favorites, including the cantata Iphigenia in Brooklyn, have since been collected on a Vanguard recording. Perhaps the most touching compliment Schickele received was from a lady who rushed up to him after one concert, shook his hand warmly and gushed: "Oh, professor, it was awful, just awful!" "Thank you," said Schickele, "thank...