Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inflationary Time Bomb. If the bill was going to do all that, then why was it necessary for the President to drum up popular support for it? The answer is that the bill is in trouble. And if there was more than a touch of demagoguery in Kennedy's 21-minute talk, it was rooted in the worry that his tax-cut measure would be defeated or rendered completely worthless. "There are those who, for one reason or another, hope to delay this bill," said the President darkly, "or to water down its effects...
Wooing Brothers. Mao's minions have been beating the racial drum at huge pro-Negro rallies in major Chinese cities. In an 18-month period, 87 African delegations traveled to Peking, and red-carpet welcomes are given such visitors as Burundi's Queen Therese Kanyonga and Somalia's Prime Minister Abdirascid Scermarche. Chinese propagandists in Kenya are using the slogan: "We black brothers must unite...
...Mouse, by Günter Grass. Best-selling Novelist Grass (The Tin Drum) relates the torment of a young man whose prominent Adam's apple makes him an outcast to his classmates. He strives for excellence and wins it, but to the "cat"-human conformity-he is still a curiosity...
...Mouse, by Günter Grass. Best-selling Novelist Grass (The Tin Drum) relates the torment of a young man whose prominent Adam's apple makes him an outcast to his classmates. He strives for achievement and wins it, but to the "cat"-human conformity-he is still a curiosity...
...Drum, religious symbolism pervades the book. Again and again, the narrator-the boy who originally threw the cat on Mahlke's mouse, and who suffers from a feeling that he has betrayed Mahlke-refers to Mahlke's "sorrowful, sallow Redeemer's countenance." And the brooding sense of loss and desolation that runs through the book suggests that Grass may be trying to shape a Christ figure suitable for a deformed and shadowed...