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...greet the Chancellor's limousine at the diplomatic entrance. While guns boomed out a 19-gun salute, a Marine band played the German national anthem and then the Star-Spangled Banner. There was a flashy presentation of colors by an honor guard, and a bewigged fife and drum corps, wearing colonial dress, marched...
...past few weeks. As a result of that skepticism, says one White House aide, "a clever overall strategy" will be needed if the President is to have his way on taxes. That may include a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign, financed in part by the Republican National Committee, to drum up support in conservative congressional districts. The strategy will almost certainly also involve an accommodation...
...instinct--then hops down, nods furtively and scurries by the legs of the audience with some submissive mutters of "excuse me." The moment when the jealous Count gives Cherubino an army officer's commission to remove him from the scene--immortalized by Mozart in his mock-heroic, trumpet-and-drum aria "Non piu andrai..."--Epstein appropriates for a bit of grisly realism: Figaro grabs Cherubino by the shoulders and shakes him into an awareness of the horrors...
This description jibes perfectly with Grass's own fictional methods, particularly in The Tin Drum, a sprawling, picaresque vision of a later war. The Meeting at Telgte is considerably shorter and less ambitious than its famous predecessor, much more an elegy than an encyclopedia. But for all its brevity, the novel fleshes out serious old questions about the place of literature in the lives of nations. Grass allows his imaginary meeting to end on a note of ineffectuality. The inn burns down, and with it a peace proposal that the poets composed: "And so, what would in any case...
...Yale includes a lot of animal sex in their shows," former drum major Paul Micou '81 said yesterday...