Word: drumbeaters
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...fact that the two Marines' march to justice will be played out to a military drumbeat has cheered many civilian observers and dismayed as many others. For the same reason: the no-nonsense procedures of military justice would get right to the punitive point, without being deflected by wimpy legal niceties. But that vision of military law is at least naive. Sergeant Lonetree and Corporal Bracy may in the end face a grimmer outcome at the hands of a court-martial, but before that can happen, they will enjoy some advantages they would not have in civilian courts...
...music is easier to appreciate than enjoy. But they cannot help being excited by the dancing, which expresses, in spontaneous but disciplined and concentrated movement, the passions of the Gypsy soul. Eduardo Serrano crosses the stage with the lacy delicacy of a tightrope walker before erupting in a virile drumbeat, a machine gun, of toe tapping. Manuela Carrasco draws all eyes with an ethereal hauteur that is only accentuated by the jackhammer snap of her commanding heels and the swirl of her long ruffled gown. Some are known chiefly by their nicknames, which, according to Gypsy custom, are short...
...this goes on against a drumbeat of criticism. Wolper has been savaged for glitzy overkill and for commercializing the statue by selling TV rights to ABC for $10 million. The other networks, furious, forced ABC to share the news events. His equanimity strained, Wolper bridles at talk that he is making money from Liberty Weekend: "I get zero, zip. They offered a fifty-fifty deal. I turned it down. I wanted to be a volunteer, because I'm asking so many other people to be a volunteer." (He receives $400 a day for expenses, far below his normal income...
...much needed victory to boast about. It answers "the cheap-shot artists who try to portray the military as not being able to tie their shoelaces," exulted Navy Secretary John Lehman. But the Navy's success at diverting a single civilian airliner is not likely to muffle a drumbeat for military reform that has been swelling throughout Washington. At a session with reporters last week, former Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard, who chairs a presidential commission appointed to look into charges of Pentagon waste and mismanagement, concluded that "fundamental" changes should be made in the way the Pentagon buys...
...currently fashionable to look down our noses at the late 70's, when students are supposed to have sold out their ideals to the almighty dollar. Time magazine and its attendant sycophantic competitors are fond of telling us that a decade ago students began to march to the drumbeat of the selfishness song, which goes something like: "No more sweaty rallies, no more LSD: Society owes a turbo Porsche to me, me, me." Even if we accept this colossal generalization with its implicit comparison to our generation, we must still wonder whether our immediate forebears weren't more honest than...