Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whisper to Howl. Most spectacular example is a sprawling, scurrilous first novel, Günter Grass's Tin Drum, which has won prizes and stirred anger all over Europe, sold 150,000 copies in Germany, and will be out in the U.S. next month...
Grass, a 35-year-old ex-tombstone carver, is probably the most inventive talent to be heard from anywhere since the war. In The Tin Drum, he employs every technique from realism to surrealism, every tone from a whisper to a howl. The gaudiest gimmick in his literary bag of tricks, however, is a character named Oskar Matzerath. For Oskar is that wildly distorted mirror which, held up to a wildly deformed reality, gives back a recognizable likeness...
...Netherlands. These arrangements are so profitable that although Old Town's export sales this year will amount to only $500,000, they will account for half the company's profits-and it has all been done without a single Old Town executive leaving the U.S. to drum up business...
...from Japanese to English in their services, call themselves churches rather than temples to avoid identification with the occult. Services are held on Sunday, although all days are holy to Buddhists. The Buddhist Church of Seattle sponsors a Boy Scout troop, a day nursery, a Sunday school and a drum and bugle corps...
...prepare for the New York rumble, the band marched through Yale at 3:30 a.m. this morning. Once in New York, strategy will be mapped to protect individual bandsmen and the Big Drum. On the last trip to New York, the band held off hundreds of townies who assaulted the musicians on the march. Two cymbals and several drumsticks were bloodied in the melee...