Word: horning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russians fail in the Arctic and the Soviet Far East, they would be forced to turn to the Middle East for supplies. That prospect deeply worries Pentagon planners, who fear that Soviet involvement in the Horn of Africa stems from Moscow's desire to control choke points along the tanker routes that carry oil to Western markets. The Saudi rulers and the Shah of Iran share concern that the Kremlin might resort to force to secure new supplies. For all parties concerned. the best solution by far would be for the Soviets to succeed brilliantly in their Arctic efforts...
...bitter civil war, a Soviet airlift of arms in support of an unstable military regime, increasing numbers of Russian and Cuban advisers, ragtag battalions of tribesmen bloodying each other with modern weapons supplied by outside powers. Now the battlefield is Ethiopia and the high-stakes pawn is the strategic Horn of Africa, which commands the shipping routes through the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean...
...musicality of Shaw's language pervades the evening. His mother had a fine mezzo-soprano voice, and at the beginning of his journalistic career, he was a music critic signing himself Corno di Bassetto, which means basset horn. The cadences of his speeches are like arias, and Donnelly delivers them that way with an ingratiating Dublin inflection. Indeed, most of Shaw's greater plays could be transposed into operas, just as Pygmalion was made into My Fair Lady...
DIED. Rahsaan Roland Kirk, 41, blind jazz musician famed for his ability to play three instruments simultaneously; of as yet undetermined causes; in Bloomington, Ind. Kirk played the manzello (a quasi-saxophone), the stritch (a horn resembling a dented blunderbuss) and the tenor sax together, combining themes of Brazilian Composer Villa-Lobos, Atonalist Arnold Schonberg and Bassist Charlie Mingus...
Hare Krishna Santa Clauses, a prefabricated creche, plastic lights and boughs, and a lone Salvation Army horn player are ushering in the Christmas spirit and trying to throw Cambridge shoppers into a buying frenzy...