Word: drums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...desert. Saplings enclose it; years ago the river vanished. From a circus cage on wheels, a bearded paterfamilias glowers, serenaded by a man in tails (on cornet), a bus boy (French horn), a girl in evening dress (violin), and a child perched in a potted shrub, tapping on a drum. A scattering of vacant chairs inhabiting an empty, silent landscape marks the spot where a party died. Philip C. Curtis, 63, is possibly the only Surrealist now living in Arizona. But Surrealism is a term he uses "quietly, incidentally, to express my ideas. Most Surrealists are on the brutal side...
...walkout is one more sign that union members everywhere are marching to a martial drum. This year the pace of American life has been snarled by an unusual number of strikes, and the appetites of union members have been whetted by some outrageously high settlements. Construction workers in this year's first quarter squeezed out wage increases averaging 18%. Last June, the Teamsters won hourly raises of $1.85 over 39 months...
...time (winning time: 11.1 seconds) is declared the winner. A well-bred sire can bring up to $9,000; raccoons come free to those who can catch them. The canine competition continues through drag races toward a caged coon hanging from a tree and another atop a floating gasoline drum. Among raccoon hunters this is all high art, punctuated by discussions about the bark, speed, height of jump and, above all, the nose of the animals involved...
Though its origin was British, "ancient" fife-and-drum music has been best preserved in America, and especially in Connecticut, where it is a folk tradition passed down from generation to generation. The earliest American corps on record was founded in Annapolis in 1717. During the Revolutionary War, General George Washington issued an order stating: "Hours are to be assigned for all the drums and fifes of each regiment, and they are to attend them and practice; nothing is more agreeable, and ornamental, than good music." Because soldiers might have confused rehearsals with actual calls to arms, the Continental Army...
Muster Day was a montage of sound and color as the 63 participating corps, resplendent in their scarlets, blues, grays and whites, drummed and fifed their way through the streets of Deep River to a ball field on the outskirts of town. There, each group performed a medley of its favorite tunes in a five-hour fife-and-drum fest that left many of the uninitiated benumbed. The tunes ranged from Yankee Doodle and other Revolutionary War melodies like Road to Boston and The World Turned Upside Down, to such Civil War favorites as Marching Through Georgia and The Battle...