Word: drums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teams venture onto the Notre Dame campus. Backed by the loudest, most rabid rooters this side of the Roman Colosseum, the Fighting Irish invariably play over their own heads-while their luckless opponents lose theirs-in an ear-shattering din that is roughly akin to playing inside a bass drum. Two years ago, for example, undefeated U.C.L.A. sailed into South Bend, Ind., and was scuttled in one of the most startling upsets of the season...
...Super Bowl festivities continued the next day. The green area surrounding the Los Angeles Colliseum was littered spectators awaiting the 12:30 kickoff. One group of Redskins fans led by a painted brave with buffalo horns snaked its way through the crowds to the best of a drum...
There was no need for translation, however, when they took to the stage of the Civic Opera. For this performance the Shenyang troupe used no tightropes and no trapezes. They did not heighten the drama of their performance with drum rolls or tense pauses. Their sleight of hand was charmingly, almost childishly transparent. The easiest of the stunts were executed with painstaking care; the most difficult were tossed off nonchalantly. Two girls juggled china vases with their feet. A man did a handstand atop a rickety pyramid of tables, chairs and bricks, then deliberately collapsed the pyramid...
...that was missing from the scene was the distant drum roll and the thwack of the guillotine blade as White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler briskly announced each day which heads will roll in the President's pruning of the bureaucracy. Last week alone the count of important resignations accepted reached 17, bringing the overall total to nearly 60. Not in memory had a U.S. President made such a clean sweep of his own appointments...
CAREER PLANS: Drum Major for Notre Dame Band...