Word: vanguardism
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Finally, I will mention a few albums by local folksingers. Joan Baez has been well-promoted in Cambridge. She has, in addition to her first release on the Veritas label, two records on Vanguard. Baez has a staggeringly beautiful voice. Her rendition of "Old Blue" on her latest Vanguard release is also excellent for checking up on the distortion of your phono-cartridge. Theodore Alevizos, a former WHRB Balladeer, has a wonderful recording of Greek folksongs on Prestige International, whereon he is accompanied by Rolf Cahn and Susan Alevizos. Rolf Cahn and Eric Von Schmidt have an album on Folkways...
...rough-and-ready game. A strong stand against appeasement and for a tough foreign policy wins votes. Together with the military the hard-line politicians constitute a formidable pressure group. And Rockefeller's blithe rejection both of painstaking technical evaluation and agonizing soul-searching places him in the vanguard of this group...
...next day the vanguard headed out to their new assignments. Fifty (including 21 young women) went directly to Ghana, to teach in secondary schools. The other 30 (all men) flew to Puerto Rico for 26 days of field training before proceeding to Tanganyika, where they will build roads for the next two years. Available soon to each corpsman is a special guidebook, "Working Effectively Overseas." Crammed with information on the problems and pitfalls-trivial as well as serious-of working in primitive countries, the booklet was drawn from the painful experience of other Americans in the field. Items...
Mozart: Concertos for Horn and Orchestra (Albert Linder, horn; Vienna State Opera Orchestra, conducted by Hans Swarowsky; Vanguard). The four concertos Mozart wrote for horn are all beauties -full of pert, charming and sometimes humorous ideas put together with faultless style and taste. Danish Hornist Linder does them justice...
...many senses a Deep South city. It is not necessarily a placid place. Says a race-relations worker who has long traveled throughout the South: "Nashville can be the nastiest town I've ever seen." But Nashville (pop. 170,000) has unexpectedly taken its place in the vanguard of Southern integration...