Word: drum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...temple courtyard crowded with men in colored turbans, sitting comfortably behind gilded consoles, beating on xylophone-like strips of metal with wooden hammers. In the rear hung three huge, deep-humming brass gongs. At the foot of the temple steps, two men sat and fluttered butterfly fingers against tubular drums. The music of a Balinese gamelan can clang steel-hard or chime gold-soft, Manhattanites discovered -and the rhythm was as exact and exciting as a drum solo by Gene Krupa...
...appeared just before the Democratic Convention and Martin's soon after). Basically, they are overblown news stories, combining amateurish attempts at character analysis with homey anecdotes about the Governor frolicking with his kids on the front lawn. Neither book is well written because, I suppose, quotations, homily, and hum-drum are incompatible with polished prose. At best, they are slick...
Watching for the coining of a united Europe is like watching for the elephants in a circus parade. First come the outriders, colored floats, steam calliopes and drum majors, tossing their batons. With each new sight, the kids shout "Here they come!" But still no elephants...
...Foreign Wars. Ike's advisers were worried when they found out that the V.F.W. meeting was to take place in Los Angeles' vast, 105,000-seat Memorial Coliseum, which they knew would not be filled. In the TV age, such huge crowds, unless they are carefully drummed up in advance, have become rare. But the V.F.W. wanted the Coliseum for parade purposes. Since his appearance was "non-political," Eisenhower did not allow any interference with the veterans' plans, or any attempts by the Republican Party organization to drum up spectators. Only 14,924 seats were filled...
After five months of careful work, Burgoyne and Washington are back in their frames, and Cornwallis is almost finished. Tightening the picture on a stretcher last week, the countess gave it a light tap with her finger. Cornwallis uttered a soft boom. "You see," she said proudly,"like a drum...