Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mainstream itself is changing, pulling in new elements as it goes. On some of his funkier tunes at Newport, Rollins' group used an electric piano and Caribbean conga-drum rhythms. Pianist McCoy Tyner, 39, worked over the keyboard with his great John Coltrane-inspired chords. But backing him up was a new, lush sound provided by a chorus from his latest recording group and a genie of a percussionist who appeared and disappeared, armed with a startling array of gourds and mallet-like instruments...
...change represents a fundamental shift in American values. Many executives, especially those in their 40s and 50s, still march to the company drum and accept transfers as a means of rising. But younger executives?and their spouses ?are revolting against the stress and insecurity of the mobile society. Their rejection of the onward and upward American work ethic echoes Pop Star Billy Joel's hit: "If that's movin' up/ Then I'm movin' out." Or, as TRW Vice President James Dunlap says, "There's a feeling that work isn't everything these days. You've got to stop...
...smaller rocket motor enabled scientists to cram a dozen instruments into Pioneer's drum-shaped "bus," 2.5 meters (8.2 ft.) in diameter. In addition to carrying devices that will map the Venusian atmosphere and cloud formations, analyze the composition of the clouds and measure the interaction between the "solar wind" and the atmosphere, Pioneer 1 will use radar to penetrate the clouds and produce a rough topographic map of much of the Venusian surface. Previous radar scans, made by the giant radio telescope in Arecibo, P.R., have already detected some craters, a large chasm, possible volcanoes, mountainous areas...
...come fully attired, as if to punish themselves for wandering from the hallowed halls of academe. But most slyly tuck away the accouterments of the experienced sunbather--sunglasses, cocoa butter, iodine, baby oil or Sea 'n Ski (depending on skin type), towels, pillows, harmonicas, frisbees, blankets, congo drums (?!). All of this is hidden in bags and purses under layers of the Puritan ethic in the shape of school work. Take, for example, a young woman who dutifully begins reading Samuelson or Campbell or Marx or whoever--but reaching the end of the page she realizes that the words have slid...
...been complaining about his work, hoping to impress the girl next to him with brilliant talent for procrastination, has actually begun to play a harmonica and toss a frisbee simultaneously--the college student's Dylan imitation. And the red girl--my God, she begins to thump her drum as if moved by some invisible rhythm, her foot tapping, her head dipping, swaying, thrusting...