Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Policeman Bill," are assigned to the city schools' first, second and third grades, where they tell children about the policeman's job. It all sounds a little cloying. Even so, before one "Policeman Bill's" visit, a survey showed, ghetto children portrayed cops as monsters with whips and flashing silver badges. After he left, they scrawled kindly father figures. To woo teenagers, almost always the troublemakers in ghetto disturbances, the L.A.P.D. has experimentally hired twelve youths for help on such minor but ticklish assignments as mediating family disputes. The program so far has shown encouraging signs of success...
...pugnacious faith in the old virtues came naturally to McCaffrey. He was born of Irish immigrant stock and reared in the melting-pot atmosphere of The Bronx. Later he was awarded the Silver Star and Croix de guerre for his heroism in the trenches of France as a U.S. Army chaplain during World War I. Even before he came to Holy Cross in 1932, succeeding the late Father Francis P. Duffy (who won fame with the "Fighting 69th" Regiment back when that was an honorable number), McCaffrey honed his appreciation of law enforcement as chaplain to New York...
...schoolmaster Holofernes (Stefan Gierasch), barefoot, bowlegged, and wearing a huge diaper and silver-rimmed glasses, is a middle-aged Gandhi with traces of a Bronx accent. His sidekick Nathaniel (Ken Parker) has trouble reciting without beating his right hand in time with his sing-song delivery...
...Quill has just finished its good-to-dreary slot with a bang-up African number. The Jeff Beck Group now quickly marches in, Mick Waller at the drums, Jeff Beck prophetically brandishing his guitar. The singer Rod Stewart in burnt sienna flush velours pants that fit tight, an ornate silver cross hanging from his neck, has slender features and a bouffant hair-do and an impish grin. Ron Wood, on bass guitar, stakes out his area and the music flares like a newly struck match. Stewart sings "Rock me baby/Keep-on-rocking-me-baby/ Rock me all night long." Then slowly the lead guitar...
...little like 'Yankee Doodle' stops midway through with finger raised, and resumes the plucking with the drums still beating. Near the end of the number he finally completes the theme--it still sounds like 'Yankee Doodle' but it's brilliant, an improvisation worthy of the best jazz musicians. Into 'Silver Lining' now and Beck has a singing, singing guitar, Rod Stewart itching and arching with a tambourine. Beck does more--a rich screeching, waves of unearthly sound over and over, soulful wails. The fired crowd howls for more. Somebody shouts for 'Train' which is what the Yardbirds were doing...