Word: surfs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...declining momentum shows strikingly in Florida's Cocoa Beach, the town that space built. Five years ago, eager tipplers stood four deep at the bar in spots like Ramon's and The Surf during the Friday afternoon happy hours. The drink of the day was a vicious concoction called a "moonshot" (two-thirds 151-proof dark rum and one-third vodka mixed with cream). Now the drinking ranks are older and sparser, and it is difficult to find a bartender who remembers how to mix a moonshot...
...inflexible principal (the former represented by Hume Cronyn in one of his patented portrayals of the small in spirit; the latter played with a not unsympathetic strength by Madge Sinclair). Many of the children cannot spell their names; none know the name of the ocean that surrounds them. The surf regularly claims lives among them because no one-until Conroy-has taught them to swim...
...flown into the Tanzanian bush to operate on a nun who broke both legs in a fall into a well, performed an airborne operation on a youngster savaged by a hyena, and saved the life of a Kenyan fisherman who nearly drowned when his dugout canoe overturned in the surf and an anchor pierced his arm. They routinely treat casualties of tribal warfare and those fortunate enough to live through attacks by crocodiles...
Baker, who once played with Sha drummer Jocko in a Boston surf band, The Pilgrims, puts entertaining above all else. He says that he gets jumpy and nervous before shows, from sheer eagerness to get on stage. And at the root of Sha Na Na'a success is this kind of feeling, combined with a real affection for the songs and routines that they perform...
...reason Andrew Wyeth and other painters of Americana have ignored Steve is because they don't know he exists. He is a priceless relic of northern Massachusetts--an Ipswich clam digger who awakens before the sun rises and spends his early morning hours plunging his hands into sand and surf in search of hardshelled fish...