Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Allan Lomax marred Saturday night's concert. The script eulogized America's "wide prairies" and "tumble-down churches" and was intended to unify the program. Unfortunately, it only succeeded in flattening an evening that included such highly original talents as Joseph Spence, Ed Young and the Southern Fife And Drum Corps, Yomo Toro, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band with Billie and Dede Pierce, and the Lovin' Spoonful. The eagerly anticipated Chuck Berry failed to appear...
Though a member of the armed forces cannot officially campaign, Willmore said last week at his 1st Cavalry Division (Airborne) post in An Khe: "I am already running." His wife and friends have been combing the district to drum up supporters, and Willmore plans to resign his captaincy if he wins the primary. A political science graduate of the University of Idaho who joined the Army five years ago, he then will cover the district's 42,104 square miles in a helicopter, is given a good chance of winning in what has become a swing area. He believes...
Some of the songs, especially the opener, "Row, Row, Row," needed another day of rehearsal: there was enough random foot-wriggling and arm-moving to be bothersome. The three piece orchestra (two pianos and a drum--kazoo and whistle from time to time) was by itself smoothly professional. It's worth going to hear them if only to convince yourself that honkey-tonk and marches are closer art froms than you realized...
...George, the caustic, cynical master of revels, Burton is superb, shrewdly measuring out his powerhouse talent in a part written for a far less heroic actor. A muffled drum sounded against the din of crashing china, he joylessly endures pain and joylessly inflicts it with the hollow stare of a man so sick of life that he cannot even relish his final vindictive triumph...
Members will march from the elections in Harvard Hall to the Theatre, led by the traditional fife and drum. The poet will be Adrienne Rich '51, and the Orator will be Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature...