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Five Brown students were arrested yesterday by Massachusetts State Police in Framingham and charged with the theft of the Harvard band's big brass drum...
...WAILERS--One of Jamaica's hottest reggae groups, the Wailers have remained faithful to the early, sparsely arranged, stoned-out reggae sound. With just their bass, lead guitar, electric organ, and a steady, understated drum beat, they create an eerily hypnotic musical style. The force behind the group's unrelenting swaying rhythms builds up like the lava emerging from a volcano. Bob Marley's lyrics combine Rastafarlan spirituality with an uncompromising insistence on political freedom; the Wailers create an atmosphere of a revolutionary cadre holding a ganja party in a Kingston ghetto. Unfortunately, Paul's Mall, which offers no dance...
...drizzly March day in 1969, Germany's most powerful novelist, Günter Grass (The Tin Drum, Local Anaesthetic), abandoned his beloved stand-up writing desk, his charming dancer-wife Anna and his four children (ages four to eleven)-for what? That least seductive of modern quests: politics. A barely tolerable necessity if one is running for office, electioneering in Grass's case was pure altruism. He was doing it on behalf of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt...
...hard to reconcile this man with the bright, tangible, often hilarious images that play out their variations in the visual and verbal puns of Grass snovels. The adventures of little Oskar with his drum were told from the caricaturing perspectives of memory and the madhouse. They are rendered as sharply as the figure of Oskar which Grass himself drew for the book's cover. Oskar has a style and a perspective that delicately guide the telling of his adventures through the psychological minefield which the war had left. Lingering guilt--for Grass as for most post-war German writers--infects...
...constantly claims, separate from his statements on the socialist soapbox, and yet justifies his views aesthetically. He insists very stubbornly on the distinction, saying that he would "never write a poem about the Social Democratic Party," but finds no contradiction in claiming that a book like The Tin Drum helps explain why Hitler came to power. The line between explanation and instruction is very fine and discovering where the two meet is likely to reveal the real focus of Grass's work, which is perhaps more than anything a kind of explanation to himself...