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Nonsense Talk. At first, Secretary of State Christian Herter offered Castro a diplomatic out for his undiplomatic language, laid the outburst to "emotional strain" over the disaster. But when his words only increased the din of epithets, even Herter's patience was tried. He summoned Enrique Patterson, Cuba's chargé d'affaires, to the State Department and read him one of the strongest protests the U.S. has issued in recent years...
Winter Carnival marks the Hanover equivalent of Groundhog Day, and the local inhabitants come out of hibernation, wash, and take their hockey sticks to the game, to watch, yell, and pound on the boards. The din is terrific, and often the referees start making calls in favor of the home team...
...third-rate detective stories. At novel length, Dickens could create memorable caricatures, e.g., Mr. Micawber, Uriah Heep, Madame Defarge. In the short stories, his characters are mere mannerisms. In the novels, Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller produce idiosyncratic dialogue; in the short stories there is only an endless chatty din...
...certainly in any such comic warfare, Nancy Walker should make a sterling commander on one side and Bert Lahr a doughty generalissimo on the other. But the girls and boys in The Girls Against the Boys are forever fighting their material instead of one another, and conveying the mere din of battle rather than the exploits. The singing and the stomping in the show are often as piercingly loud as an unsupervised children's party, and the sketches and joking are correspondingly leaden...
Where the rude din of this . . . century Can trouble him no more...