Word: alarum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Again as in all proper tragedies, there are choruses to sound the alarum on the McNamara Rostow-Bundys, including old Senate Majority Leader Sam Rayburn ("I'd feel a whole lot better about them if just one of them had run for sheriff once"). There was also plenty of handwriting on the walls. As early as 1954, General Matthew Ridgway had drawn up a report indicating that if the U.S. wanted to follow France into Indochina the price would be between 500,000 and 1,000,000 men tied down to a prolonged guerrilla...
...Black John the Conqueror" is the first cut on The Sun, Moon and Herbs, and it's indicative of how Dr. John has progressed since his previous releases. He uses horns, with a purpose, an alarum beckoning one to the arrival of Black John the Conqueror. Dr. John uses a prominent piano, with which he is able to change rhythms and direct the flow of the music. The imagery is fascinating... there's Dr. John banging away on the piano, while rolling words off his tongue in Dylanesque fashion. Then there are the voices, swaying in a trance-like state...
AMERICAN NOTES Crime Marches On Bulletins of the decade's first days support Hamlet's alarum: "Rank corruption, mining all within, infects unseen." Thirty-two West Virginians, including a former Governor and other notables, were indicted last week for assorted acts of malfeasance and peculation. In Morgantown, W. Va., a young prosecutor, Joseph Laurita, spent his first year in office crusading against organized crime. He was seriously injured when a bomb went off in his car. New Jersey was lurching through one of its periodic discoveries of mobster influence on public men and public affairs, while across...