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...street-gang leaders and SPONGE officials. Unknown to most New Yorkers was the fact that the mayor has been making tours of the ghetto areas ever since his inauguration last January. Before last week's violence, he strode one evening among the crowds of East Harlem, played the bongo drums with a pickup front-stoop combo, was bear-hugged by a blind Negro, tried with unquenchable determination to tidy up the streets. Another day the mayor went into the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, plowed into an angry crowd that was clamoring menacingly for more schools, and wound up bobbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: The Jungle & the City | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...joint, pouch his fee, and go back to Nottingham. Instead, the Creative Writing Fellow has a fling at, or with, life. He sheds his tweed for seersucker, tries to shed his wife by cable, swims by night in the buff, grapples with faculty wives, and plays madly on bongo drums. He has no worries except that he is required to sign a loyalty oath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unlucky Jim | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

...carry too many woes. You get thrown all the time . . . It's all those coronations and that changing of the guard. They hooked you, and you can't get loose." Walker makes it back to the States by Greyhound, bound for home, still clutching his now mute bongo drums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unlucky Jim | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

Psalms, like its predecessor, is a choral work in Hebrew and is scored for a prodigious cavalcade of instruments including a glockenspiel, xylophone, a pair of cymbals, a suspended cymbal, tambourine, triangle, rasps, whip, wood block, three temple blocks, timpani, snare drum, bass drum and three bongo drums. Conductor-Composer Bernstein made the most of them; he went through his entire ballet routine on the podium and had the Philharmonic Orchestra playing like gods, and the Camerata Singers sounding like angels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: In This Age of Dodecaphonics | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

...carpeted student union lounge, attend class lectures-and even ask questions in class. He can borrow a friend's registration card, get free medical treatment, attend free movies. He can sun himself near the union fountain, lunch on cheap sandwiches and pie at the outdoor Terrace, bang on bongo drums on the Lower Plaza. "Berkeley is one of the best places I know of to drop out of the system and yet survive," says Dr. David H. Powelson, director of the campus psychiatric clinic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: The Womb-Clingers | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

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