Word: cajun
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...toward repeated failure was reversed as the skies were peppered with missiles. A second Pershing flew properly. The first International Satellite-a joint effort by the U.S. and Great Britain-was successfully nudged into orbit by a Thor-Delta rocket to gather data on cosmic radiation. A smaller Nike-Cajun was shot 75 miles high in another ionosphere-probing experiment. The Air Force fired two satellites from Point Arguello, Calif, in secrecy-shrouded round-the-pole missions. And the Russians stayed in the space race by launching their fourth Sputnik in six weeks...
Last week, through the upcountry, the big city of New Orleans and the Cajun lowlands, the avalanche fell-a record 900,000 votes in all-but not on the jambalaya pot. Licked worse than even the strongest pessimist might have guessed was 47-year-old "Chep" Morrison himself, longtime reform politician, perennial foe of the Long regime, and, all in all, a relatively moderate Southerner. The winner: James H. Davis, 59, colorless, onetime Governor (1944-48) renowned for his guitar-strumming and hillbilly compositions (You Are My Sunshine), outspoken foe of integration, and without doubt the next Governor of Louisiana...
Angola prison is a favorite hunting ground of Folklorist Harry Oster. A scholarly teacher of English at Louisiana State University, Oster roams the streets and backlands of his adopted state to record its rich musical patois-French, Cajun, Negro French, Anglo-Saxon. In four years he has spaded up material that many a folklorist would give his magnetized recorder heads...
...statue of the Virgin in the front yard and an oil well in the back. Neither of the old girls could sing a note. On the other hand, Oster has found that many a performer can be coaxed to song with a little priming. In French and Cajun settlements, he tries to build his listeners' confidence by singing a few songs himself or posing some leading question about money and drink, life or death. He gets surprising answers...
...rampant or even frequent" in Louisiana rice fields. So, instead, Author Keyes has made her tale turn on a murder in a rice bin. The victim is a fictional cabaret singer named Titine Dargereux ("very good to look at, and the closer she came, the more alluring"). Cajun Titine titillates Rice Prince Prosper Villac, who "had her to himself beside a bayou" in return for a pair of gold slippers. So when Titine is found suffocated in the Villac rice mill, the gold slipper that sticks above the grain points accusingly at Prosper-and just at the moment that Prosper...