Word: drumbeater
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...reached deep into history to adopt analogies for the current struggle with Iran. Government pronouncements constantly refer to the Iranians as "racist Persians." The victory of the Arabs over the Persians at Qadasiya in the 7th century is trumpeted at every turn. Radio and television keep up a drumbeat of patriotic poems set to martial music. The propaganda has had some impact. Many Baghdadis feel that their country is not only waging a war against a traditional enemy that gained control of the Shatt al Arab waterway by exploiting Iraqi weakness, but spearheading a patriotic, nationalist cause for the entire...
...Hitler, with its pounding Wagner and Beethoven, acknowledges Oskar's drum. It beats in time to the modern German effort to recreate Hegel's sense of history, Goethe's sense of self, Nietzche's sense of strength and Gunter Grass' cheeky sense of post-modern myth--the eerie drumbeat of barbarism, mysticism, and boredom...
Nonetheless, there was an unstoppable drumbeat of rumors echoing through Washington: the President was somehow settling the 1980 nomination question with Ted Kennedy; the President was shaking up his White House staff, perhaps firing top aides; the President was having a mental breakdown; the President was preparing to resign. As Washington waited, the dollar plunged on international financial markets. The New York Post summed up the spreading bewilderment by demanding, in its blackest front-page type: WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU UP TO, MR. PRESIDENT...
Capitalizing on Reed's popularity, the Soviets also started a drumbeat of staged flackery on the arrested singer's behalf. The newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda reported that telegrams "expressing wrath and indignation at the arbitrary rule of U.S. authorities" were pouring in. A quartet of Soviet classical composers fired off a message to the White House prodding Carter to "urgently intervene to put an end to arbitrary action and ensure the release of Dean Reed." Reed helped the cause by refusing to post $300 bail, going on a hunger strike with some of his fellow prisoners and announcing...
...women talked, Kristopher Walker, 18 months old, maintained a steady drumbeat on the walls of his crib upstairs. The noise highlighted the basic fact of a lifestyle that is part of, and yet to a large extent cut off from, the rest of the Harvard community...