Word: drum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beating of drum and gong, 86.4% of the eligible voters in South Viet Nam last week went to the polls to elect the country's first National Assembly. Result: a landslide victory for President Ngo Dinh Diem's National Revolutionary Movement. Despite highhanded campaign regulations that hobbled any organized opposition to Diem, the election was no mere formality. There were many independent candidates in the running. Voters indicated Diem's basic popularity by voting heavily for openly pro-government candidates of whatever party, including Diem's brother and sister-in-law and four of his Cabinet...
...BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY (243 pp.)-Mark Harris-Knopf...
...stories could be boiled down to yes, with reservations. Now, 40 years later, both sportswriters and novelists seem to have fewer reservations. In Bernard Malamud's The Natural (TIME, Sept. 8, 1952), there was the mystical intimation that major-leaguers might even have souls. In Bang the Drum Slowly, Novelist Mark (The Southpaw) Harris modestly stays closer to the bag. Look, he says, they are human, and their hearts can hurt as much as a spiked foot...
Even the Harvard band will brave both the elements and the taunts of onlookers with its red coats. The bandsmen will march the entire five-mile distance, shielded by shamrocks in their lapels and an "Erin go bragh" emblazoned on The Drum...
...strangely airy and bodiless. But the chief reason for all the internal excitement is the Duke's new drummer, Sam Woodyard. He sits, lean and still, behind his battery, neatly punctuating every phrase, coming as close as any man could to playing a tune on his four side drums and three cymbals (he actually squeezes pitch changes out of one drum by leaning on it with an elbow), while keeping a rhythm as solid as Gibraltar. When the band appeared bored with a number, he seemed to get under and shove-and the band came alive...