Word: drummings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian technical experts ever to visit West Germany, who hungrily eyed the finely tooled Ruhr machines and spread the Lorelei song for more East-West trade. Never before were the Red traders so active and abundant. Poland sent 200 engineers; Red China dispatched 30 stonefaced, baggy-trousered representatives to drum up business...
...Todd is no man to tell a tip (crowd) what it does not wish to hear, there was no doubt that he had a point. As U.S. business gets bigger and more competitive, there is no business like showy business. To make even a small noise takes a big drum...
...cure for Oscar Hammerstein II's script, which kept shifting uneasily between the sentimental and the sophisticated, and making each seem lamer than the other. The modern approach produced a down-to-earth skeptic of a Godmother (Edith Adams) with sequined eyelids and, for a magic wand, a drum major's baton. The attempt at innocent fairy-tale enchantment was sometimes harder to take: one interminable lovers' dialogue consisted of stilted inanities that sounded like a whole musicom-edy's worth of song cues laid end to end. Hammerstein, a gentle soul, also evidently felt compelled...
...from 35,800 to 85,200. In one year Fotouhi arranged for as many as 2,400 showings of documentary films. The big Atoms for Peace exhibition that he brought to Hiroshima last year is still going the rounds. He has staged concerts by the First Marine Air Wing Drum and Bugle Corps, started a series of seminars on American culture, a Japanese-American folk-dance program. Last Christmas he dressed up as Santa Claus, visited the orphanages in town to distribute gifts...
...stage of Judson Memorial Hall at Manhattan's Washington Square. Glancing at the drummer to the right of him, Ravi Shankar cradled his sitar in his arms, and with slender, agile fingers began to coax from its steel strings a piercingly plaintive, twangy melody. Beside him the tabla (drum) thrummed and rataplanned a shifting, syncopated beat, and behind him a four-stringed, unfretted lute named the tamboura thinly droned its hypnotic accompaniment. Thus Sitarist Shankar, India's most widely famed contemporary musician, last week gave U.S. listeners a taste of his country's traditional music...