Word: drum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Drum, by Giinter Grass. A grotesque dwarfs-eye view of the Third Reich and its aftermath told by the most powerfully imaginative novelist to emerge in postwar Germany...
...Salinger (3, last week) 2. The Glass-Blowers, Du Maurier (2) 3. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (1) 4. Grandmother and the Priests, Caldwell (4) 5. The Sand Pebbles, McKenna (5) 6. Fail-Safe, Burdick and Wheeler (10) 7. The Moonflower Vine, Carleton (8) 8. The Tin Drum, Grass (7) 9. The Moon-Spinners, Stewart (6) 10. The Centaur, Updike...
Hemingway took him to the boxing matches; Duchamp beat him at chess. Brancusi entertained him by playing the violin, Cocteau by a drum recital, Gertrude Stein by letting Alice B. Toklas cook him lunch. And this was fit tribute to the wiry young expatriate American who not only made artful photographs of his Paris friends but also created a series of "objects"-tacks fastened to a flatiron, a picture of the human eye to a metronome - that shook the salons of the '20s with cries of ecstasy and reverence. Yet Man Ray wanted fame as a painter...
...Drum, Grass...
...Sedan, where so many jubilant thousands crowded the square before city hall that De Gaulle called upon his critics to note well his enthusiastic reception. As he moved on through the green meadows of the Meuse valley, every village was filled with rubber-booted farmers, schoolchildren with flags, drum and bugle corps. At Charleville, the crowd overflowed the arcaded square, and De Gaulle jeered at "those who would prefer that everything failed, either because it is in their nature or because they count on finding in a setback-but aren't they mistaken?-some chance for themselves...