Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...front page--concentrate on sports. Four days out of five a sports story led the paper; the Crimson, for instance, covered in detail every practice of the football team. FDR seemed to realize that the emphasis on athletics could get out of hand: once, trying in an editorial to drum up attendance at a lecture, he wrote, "In these days of strenuous athletics and other somewhat unacademic pursuits a good many people wonder whether the modern young man goes to the university for that mental training which comes primarily from the study of books." Still, it didn't stop...
...Assistant Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger learned firsthand on a trip through Europe to drum up support for the sanctions, the Europeans are opposed to punishing the Soviet Union unless it openly intervenes in Poland. At the heart of the allied opposition is the belief that sanctions, no matter how well meaning, do not work. As one Italian politician noted cynically, "Carter adopted sanctions against the Soviets to get them out of Afghanistan. They still are in Afghanistan." Said a British trade official: "Trade is a very difficult sanction to apply; like water, it will always find a way through...
...June the Soviet Central Committee sent Warsaw a letter, as ominous as a drum roll, that criticized by name the Polish Communists for tolerating counterrevolution: "We are disturbed by the fact that the offensive by antisocialist enemy forces in Poland threatens the interests of our entire commonwealth and the security of its borders?yes, our common security." In early July, a chill settled over Warsaw: Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko dourly descended upon the Polish capital with yet another admonition against any liberalizing tendency within the party...
Sophisticated Ladies. Gregory Hines is a dancing, singing, drum-flaying supernova in this stylish tribute to the dandy of the jazz kingdom, Duke Ellington...
...Lowell House courtyard, Sophie Sparrow '82 and Collette Creppel '82 staged a "St. Nicholas Day celebration in sculpture and dance." Dancers dressed in red and yellow spun against the background of snow sculpture to the tune of saxophones and a drum...