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...part of one squadron was operational, yet the R.A.F. personnel numbered about 1,200." In Singapore, the R.A.F. maintains a full brass band, at a cost of ?85,000 a year. Wrote the Daily Mirror when it found out: "We all know that showing the flag and the mighty oompah, oompah, oompah of the military brass band is a jolly good thing. But who thinks a pile of brass is really worth...
...performance so far this season is more than a tribute to his own splendid talents: it shows how completely today's top college quarterbacks dominate the teams they play for. In the old tight-T and split-T formations, the quarterback was responsible for maintaining the oompah-oompah rhythm of a ground attack-and the coach often ran the team from the bench. But today's quarterback is a thief with ten accomplices. He bosses the huddle, decides the play, totes the ball. What he does is up to him. The best decision makers...
...This is correct, one needs only to see the happy faces of coffee- house owners, guitar-and-banjo-makers, professional folksingers to verify the fact. Some people, including myself, will tell you folk music suffers from renaissance--the trios and quartets (which shall be nameless) begin turning out corrupt, oompah versions of perfectly good folk songs; no lover of folk musics enjoys hearing the lush, superfatted, slick results. The task of separating what we like from the phony folk music becomes more difficult all the time, anyway. Here, then, is a one- sided incredibly opinionated, narrow- minded demi-survey...
...Amid the oompah and the hoopla that made for good box office, both major parties had reached down deep to their roots to explain themselves. By challenging the past and the future, they brought both into better focus. By searching their souls and summoning their followers to sacrifices, the politicos-in some wondrous alchemy of the tired convention process-had provoked the nation into contemplation of its character, its purpose and its goals...
...Oompah! Oom-pah!" muttered the tympanist as he lashed about in a semicircle, flailing out a solo on his five kettledrums. Then he took a cue from Conductor Howard Mitchell, launched a new flight that moved him to rumble out a profound "Ye-e-a-ah!" For all its appearance of a tribal dance the occasion was a regular concert of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington. The piece, entitled Concerto for Five Kettledrums and Orchestra, was an answer to a tympanist's dream: being liberated from his exile at the rear of the orchestra and placed out front...