Word: bells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Favoring his left leg, Nixon also walked around a section of the memorial area containing the outlines of 26 peasant houses that the Germans had burned to the ground. Inside each was an obelisk, shaped like a burnt smokestack, that contained a bell. Every 30 seconds, one of the bells tolled to honor the dead. Nixon wrote in the guest book...
...every industrialized society a common problem for leaders is the proliferation of demands upon them. Observes Harvard Sociologist Daniel Bell...
...just like adding fire to yourself." Hancock began chanting two years ago. As a convert to the Buddhist sect known in the U.S. as Nichiren Shoshu of America, he would light a candle twice a day, ignite incense, uncover a vial of water, strike a bell and begin his low, rhythmical prayer. Hancock has chanted for his band, for a new agent, for a wider audience, for higher fees. It took little more than a year, but it all finally came to pass...
...Increasingly, audiences have confused the reportage and analysis provided by newsmen with the events themselves, mistaking the messenger for the message. Post Publisher Katharine Graham quotes Shakespeare: "Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news hath but a losing office, and his tongue sounds ever after as a sullen bell...
Though Maggie is often called the Scottish Janis Joplin, and there is a superficial physical resemblance, they are dissimilar artistically and psychologically. Bell's voice lacks Joplin's extraordinary naked emotional intensity, nor can she match the eerie tripartite wails approaching chords that Joplin achieved in her final performances of Ball and Chain. Bell has a bigger voice with a hefty three-octave range, and she is unencumbered by the insecurity and corrosive self-loathing that crippled Joplin. Hers may well prove a more durable talent. "The danger in this business is hanging around with too many people...