Word: bayou
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dusty bayou country of southern Louisiana last week, the sugar cane stood 10 ft. high. It was time for harvest, but on the huge sugar plantations many of the harvesters failed to report for work. Each morning before sunup, some 2,000 (an estimated 10% of the labor force) gathered in Masonic lodges and Burial Society halls from the outskirts of New Orleans to the Atchafalaya River to sing hymns, pray, sip coffee and idle away the day. After generations of precarious existence on the big plantations, the cane workers were out on an organized strike. Their wages (minimums...
...well drilling platform, 14 miles off the Louisiana bayou shore, there was a sudden roar. Into the air shot great hissing sheets of flame. What oilmen fear worst-a well "blowout" and fire-had set aflame two of Pure Oil Co.'s gas wells...
...Balanchine's 73rd ballet was a smash success, his 74th two nights later was as close to an unqualified flop as Balanchine ever comes. Bayou, danced to a thin and repetitious suite from Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson's Louisiana Story film score, was simply not Classicist Balanchine's meat. His adventure in Americana was little more than tired cliche...
...impressions of Texas sights & sounds. Prairie Dusk, Part One of his 14-part suite, had more than just impressions; Composer Guion even worked in recordings of a Texas cricket singing, a mockingbird calling and a coyote howling. Among the other 13 parts were such plaintive songs as Buffalo Bayou Song and Wild Geese Over Palestine, Texas, an item entitled Ride, Cowboy, Ride!, with staccato hoofbeats, and for a climax, a low-down blues piece called High Steppin' Lula Belle May Ida Brown of Lyons Avenue Steps...
Janet Flockhart had explored the woods near her home trying to track down a putrid smell that had long bothered her family. She eventually found the source-a decaying, fly-covered pile of garbage on the banks of Sims Bayou. Now, she said, she knew why fish had never been able to live in the bayou...