Word: horning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France's presidential elections, the two major candidates seemed to be following The Making of The President, 1960 chapter by chapter. Interim President Alain Poher put away his steel-rimmed glasses that had turned into hundreds of tiny distracting mirrors during his TV appearance, and adopted the horn-rimmed nonreflecting kind. Gaullist Georges Pompidou had his bushy eyebrows trimmed to improve his on-camera appearance and turned on a whirlwind, U.S.-style campaign, crisscrossing the country by helicopter and executive jet. Offering a something-for- everyone platform, Pompidou promised investment incentives for business, lower taxes for shopkeepers, and declared...
English teenagers mobbed him, trying to touch him, to see his face, to hear his voice. He played before packed concert halls, mesmerizing huge audiences with the simple, lyrical beauty of his horn, receiving wildly enthusiastic ovations at the end of each number. What was the magic of this frail little black man from the back streets of New Orleans? What was there in his music that spoke its message to the hearts of these Englishmen, Swedes, Danes, Germans, and Japanese as it had spoken to his own people for almost 50 years...
...gonna learn to play that horn?" he asked as he took it from...
...Europe, young men looked up wide-eyed after hearing a Bunk Johnson record, or a rare George Lewis concert, and said, "I can't be satisfied with listening to records. I must learn to make music like that myself. Some day I will go to New Orleans with my horn, and I will play with George Lewis, and Kid Thomas, and Percy Humphrey." Young foreigners flocked to this Mecca all through the sixties. Some gave up their careers, or postponed them, to spend years at a time soaking up the music and the culture which created...
...didn't have no time. It all happened so fast. After' Gilbey run out, I packed up my horn and put it behind the bandstand. Man, I was shakin' like this," he waved his hand in the air. "Pretty soon, Gilbey run back in the all with a shotgun, and I jumped head first out the window. Everybody scattered. Then he ments with that gun, pickin' 'em up started blowin' holes in the instru-and throwin' 'em on the ground. Slashed the drum heads with his knife. Man, he went good and crazy. Wrecked Bunk's cornet for good. Bunk...