Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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g , r Q 1 i i i 6. Qs P -s A Q,-H , , 1 J 4, up ' I I - 3 ' a .fs 4 y s in y W R W i ' 'Q i .K I ffyyfgiqfl VER a hundred men sat quietly under the sparkling K lights of the mammoth stage. Somewhere, from llnglfgfcg afar off it seemed, a thread of melody wavered gi tenderly. My eyes sought in vain for the player. Every man on that platform seemed turned to stone. The wisp floated to every corner of the hall. Were the lights turned low-or was it only a trick of the imagination, fostered by those fairy-like notes. A gleam of light on brasses lifted stealthily to position, a careful attendance to the conductor, then the melody was re- enforced-now by viols, now the wind instruments. With a crashing harmony the entire company joined the drama. The agitated bowing of fifty violins made that half of the stage look as if some giant and many-legged insect had been flipped there on its back by a greater giant who even now perhaps sat on a mountain-top and chuckled at the crazily waving legs. The cellists, erect and aloof, bent woodenly in perfect rhythm, like so many puppets controlled by one guiding thread. The director had become a crazy demon. His whole body raged. With a suddenly outflung arm he pointed as though to name a man the vilest blackguard on earth. As suddenly re- called, the arm swung the viols into line and resumed its beating madness. In such a furious whirl, the breathless attention required by the single melody was not so necessary and I looked about curiously. The percussion men, tense behind the barrage of their instruments, watched eagerly for the signal that plunged them into a brief frenzy. My gaze wandered past them and IIS W .. 1

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4 n Thurman Orville Pattison, Elkland, Pennsylvania Ruth Helen Pederson, Brooklyn, New York Kathleen Florence Penn, Washington Court House, Ohio Madeline Perry, Easz Orange, New Iersey Nathan Cope Plirnpton, Ir., Chicago, Illinois Wilson Kolb Pluckhahn, New Butler, Wisconsin Thomas I. Price, Rochester, New York Albert Gaddis Reese, Brownfield, Pennsylvania Edward Rightor, Yellow Springs, Ohio Reynold Felix Rintala, Ironwood, Michigan II

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