Word: kettledrumming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leader Gerald Ford, "is a good one from our standpoint." Indeed, the plot that he laid out was compelling, if not exactly original. It called for G.O.P. Representatives and their Southern Democratic allies to deny Lyndon Johnson his request for an unpopular tax increase, beat every tom-tom and kettledrum for economy, and force the President to take responsibility for specific spending cuts. The House last week voted 238 to 164 to do just that...
...huge symphony orchestra in which each instrument retains its own characteristics, makes its particular contribution and, together with the other instruments, creates a wonderful or a terrible sound. Surely, to achieve a good sound, a French horn does not become a violin, nor does a piccolo turn into a kettledrum; rather, each strives harder to play in harmony with the others...
...Stokowski, a bow to the Philadelphia Orchestra, a bow to the audience in Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall, stocky Kimio Eto adjusted his formal robes and settled before a 6-ft.-long stringed instrument that looked like the fuselage of an unfinished model airplane. He bowed again, and a kettledrum thundered to begin the premiere of Modernist Composer Henry Cowell's Concerto for Koto and Orchestra, the first concerto ever composed by a Westerner for the 1,100-year-old Japanese instrument...
...mischievous. He is an outgoing, flamboyant man to whom privacy is sacred. Now he is snapping out wisecracks. Now he is sitting alone, quietly unapproachable. He is too often bored. He is a bad listener in general conversation and a good one when acting. He has a great big kettledrum laugh. He is afraid of airplanes and strangers. "He is all fun and jazz until a stranger comes in,'' says a onetime member of his staff. "Then he goes into that fat shell...
Vaudeville & Lampshades. Her voice today sounds like gravel dripping onto a kettledrum; her teeth have been capped four times; her tall, big-boned frame suggests the rambling form of her older brother, Dan Dailey. Their late father, manager of Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel, had some objections to Irene's theatrical ambitions, but neither he nor anyone else could have checked them. At eight, she was dancing in vaudeville, and at 18 she was launched in summer stock...