Word: guitar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lincoln Heights section of Los Angeles. He grew up, among Italian and Mexican families, in a neighborhood dotted with rundown homes. But the Meserveys were a close-knit unit. Bob's mother fed her family on music, and as a small boy Bob learned to play piano, drums, guitar, trumpet and harmonica. Neither Bob nor his younger brother Frank Jr. ever got into trouble, even though they ran about and made mischief with the neighborhood Mexican boys twice their ages...
With the coming of summer, the guitar-playing Harvard hillbilly disappears into the foothills west of Worcester and leaves the community to its own musical resources. An unusually active undergraduate dramatic scene also fades, throwing the Summer School into a more professional, although not always accomplished, world of the theatre...
Counterpoint. In Athens, Greece, guitar-plunking street-corner singers ignored angry shouts from sleepy citizens, continued their serenade until accomplices had looted two neighborhood shops...
Perhaps those left behind may prefer to spend an evening at one of the three House beach parties. Kirkland House is "featuring sand, surf, campfires and conviviality, cheer, and informal singing and guitar playing." Dunster will build "one large fire for those who do not wish to have their own somewhere on the great expanse of beach...
...spiritual vacuum in Britain. Other religious TV shows: a puzzled panel of youngsters alternating bouts of rock 'n' roll with questions to the Moderator of the Church of Scotland ("Why isn't it just as good to pray at home as in church?"), and a guitar-twanging trio of parsons...