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...Names, names, what's your name?" As they do, they pass a drum from hand to hand and each tries to say his name while beating out its syllables. Promising results are also being obtained with a behaviorist approach that does not concern itself with the cause of a child's disability or with traditional IQ measurements. It merely rewards positive responses from the child to any kind of lesson. The system seems to work with tokens that the children recognize as symbols of success. The point is to get the child accustomed to learning what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Retardation: Hope and Frustration | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

...plethora of candidates for the Democratic nomination. I am excited over every message Wallace sends "them." Though I will not vote for him for President, he is rendering America a genuine service by causing the litany of the do-gooders and bums to play second fiddle to the drum roll of those who work, pay taxes and are fed up with the moral and fiscal bankruptcy of the social planners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 24, 1972 | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

LITTLE RICHARD, or "The King of Rock and Roll" as he likes to call himself, appears at the height of his form on the song "Rockin' With the King" Sounding much like at the other Little Richard song with a piano banging at high speed, and a drum best that just won't quit "Rockin" With the King" could be as archetypal early rock song. It's easy to imagine Little Richard swinging his processed hair in the air, and wiggling his gaudily glad body as he screams out "Oh sock...

Author: By Henry W. Mcgee iii, | Title: Gimme That Ol' Time Music | 4/15/1972 | See Source »

...evening's mystery guest pulls off a couple of the smoothest on-stage poisonings I've ever not witnessed. While Christie may rub our noses in the paradoxes and devious clues she invents, she's a masterbuilder of tension and an incorrigibly clever murderess--which even her hum-drum sentimentality can't hide...

Author: By Alan Heppel, | Title: Ten Little Indians | 3/23/1972 | See Source »

...same Fillmore East concert series from which their third album was taken, the number fails to reach the near-perfection which characterized the long jams of the previous album. The beginning and end of the song are brilliant expositions of dual guitar work, but the intervening bass, drum, and organ solos cannot sustain the musical intensity of Allman and Betts's guitars...

Author: By Roger L. Smith, | Title: Eat A Peach | 3/15/1972 | See Source »

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