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...speakers' platforms and beating out counterrhythms on the tin drum. In his writing, in his life, Grass has played his own version of Oskar. He too has done his demonic best to break up all the going German rhythms, from the marching-to-destiny beat of Deutschland über Alles to the amnesiac waltz of postwar prosperity. In three war novels he has drummed: Remember! Remember! REMEMBER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dentist's Chair as an Allegory in Life | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

...reason is that blacks are doing ber of the CRIMSON Editorial Board, and Ernest Wilson '70, a Lampoon staffer, have recently obtained a $10,000 grant to revive an on-again, off-again black publication...

Author: By Hedrick Smith, | Title: Lily white problems plague campus media | 2/11/1970 | See Source »

...shower, they triggered four Wilson cloud chambers, which show the path of any ionized or charged particle that passes through them as a trail of condensed water drop lets. If a quark freed by a collision between a cosmic ray and an atmospheric atom happened to penetrate the cham ber, the physicists reasoned, it would leave a highly characteristic track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Physics: The Track of the Quark | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...Rossini," Beethoven said to his young Italian visitor in the spring of 1822, "you are the composer of The Bar ber of Seville. It delights me. It will be played as long as Italian opera exists." As usual, Beethoven was exactly right. Although Gioacchino Rossini dashed off 38 operas before his retirement at the age of 37, he was long known as essentially a one-opera composer. Many of his lively overtures are concert hall staples, but the musical dramas they introduce were generally considered too florid for modern ears and too demanding for contemporary voices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Rossini Rides Again | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

...Soviets made Ulbricht settle for much less than that. Though some 250,000 East German and Soviet troops took part in maneuvers near West Ber lin's road, rail and canal routes to the West, only road traffic came in for serious harassment. On eight occasions in seven days East German soldiers blocked the access highways for two or three hours; Soviet officers explained that Communist tanks were using the roads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Berlin: The Crisis That Wasn't | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

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