Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...move on to San Antonio to jump into a key congressional race. Battling for a vacant House Seat representing big Bexar County are liberal Democratic State Senator Henrv Gonzalez, 45, and conservative Republican John W. Goode Jr., a 38-year-old lawyer and former county chairman. Ike hoped to drum up enough support for Goode to add a third Republican to Texas' congressional delegation. For, as he said last week in a rallying cry sounded at Gettysburg: "We have stretching out before us a fight that is worth sacrificing for. If we persevere...
Kwamina tries to dance and drum its way out of its plotty doldrums and deadweight writing. Thanks to Choreographer Agnes de Mille, it sometimes does. Sinuously quivering shoulders and hypnotically swiveling hips make the stage thrum with barbaric force and sensual splendor, most notably in Mammy Traders. But the dances are less show builders than clock stoppers. Between them, the wordy worthy talk ticks on. The interracial love affair is played with such fastidious good taste by Terry Carter and Sally Ann Howes as to be flavorless...
...alarm upon observing that her daughter has developed the unnatural strut of a pacer. When she begins walking around the living room sticking out her chest, mother should know that her daughter has merely caught a whiff of a booming mania, and that soon the child will become a drum majorette...
...used to be that most high schools and colleges fielded brass bands to pep up the Saturday-afternoon football game. In the '20s, somebody dreamed up the idea of leading off the band with a female drum major, and the drum majorette was born. Soon there were teams of majorettes with high hats, tight pants, and chin-cracking dimpled knees. Today the drill teams are almost more active-in regional and national competitions, before TV cameras, on the road-than the school footballers they complement. Their marching and twirling routines are in finitely more intricate than football plays, their...
...with only 11 seconds remaining in the game, coach Buff Donelli's Lions pushed the ball over to make the final score 26 to 14. Quickly, the 11,000 fans who had received an extra bonus--a riot at halftime over an attempted Columbia attack on the mammoth Harvard drum--settled back and accepted what they had expected going into the Stadium. A Columbia victory...