Word: trumpeter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sour note sounded at Yale's family reunion last week (see above). It came from the brassy trumpet of a 25-year-old alumnus, William F. Buckley Jr. As chairman of Yale's Daily News in 1949-50, Buckley had been a sort of rebel in reverse-a fire-eating youthful conservative. Last week, in a book called God and Man at Yale (Henry Regnery; $3.50), he accused Yale in particular, and other universities in general, of sabotaging God and capitalism alike...
...real name: Kenneth Norville) has done time on the woodpile, vibes and marimba in bands ranging from 20-piece earsplitters down to sextets. Trio work is something fairly new, and Red finds it "all headwork-the bass has to cover for a drummer, the guitar for clarinet or trumpet, the vibes for piano." Headwork or handwork, old Red was the uptown...
...complete original. He invented his own instrument, the soprano saxophone, a metal clarinet which is both reedier and brassier than the wooden version. With it he produces soaring, melodious, and fanciful clarinet passeges; deep, throaty, and emotional "trombone" interjections; and the clear, fiercely driving attack associated with the trumpet. Usually he does all at once, with a tone so magnificent one feels he could drive a truck down it and with such imagination and variety that one actually has to catch one's breath...
...this that Jews call the ten days the Yamin Noraim-the Days of Fear. But when the trumpet call of the ram's-horn shofar has split the air for the last time on Yom Kippur, the mood traditionally changes to one of joy and hope. The New Year has indeed begun...
...seizes her ebony ear trumpet and bellows back, "No! I'm married now and I have a child of seven...