Word: minstrell
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...Minstrels, who were organized by Edwin P. Christy in 1842 and were the most famous minstrel show in the country for almost two decades...
...music but whose developing tastes lead him to folk music. Where the purer folk singers such as Joan Baez and Pete Seeger alienate some audiences with their austerity, the impure Christys, like the Kingston Trio, win them with the warm good cheer that makes everybody at least a vicarious minstrel...
...whom war is not hell but home. It is set in the bleak, blasted terrain of Korea a few months prior to the cease-fire at Panmunjom. Private Endore (John Saxon) is a broody loner. Each night he smudges up his face and like a blackface minstrel of death steals out behind the Chinese lines on a one-man patrol. With snakelike grace, he slithers up to an isolated and unwary outpost guard and slits his throat or plunges a knife into his heart. Then follows an infinitely more chilling ritual: the bent-over Endore circles round and round...
...Basin Street. The cats in the crowd yowled for all of them. But they also cheered for a bulky banjo player, clad in a cleric's cassock, who sat in the midst of a stripe-blazered combo and lined out Bill Bailey and Paddlin' Madeleine Home with minstrel zest and skill. This improbable jazz musician was Father John Joseph Dustin. 45, a Redemptorist priest, who has been strumming the banjo for 36 years...
...City, Ariz., last week, the clear desert air rang with a mighty chorus of activity. Through its palm-lined streets wafted the strains of Stephen Foster melodies as the cast of the Sun City Minstrel Show rehearsed for its big night. Golfers played on a golf course that meanders through the community, and lawn bowlers practiced body English on the bowling green. The shuffleboard courts were jammed, and so was the community-center swimming pool. Ranged in some 40 different clubs, Sun City residents busily kept their hand in at everything from chess to stone cutting. And-for those...