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...feet), jerk chicken and plenty of local beer and rum drinks. The musicians - who all play their instruments by ear - have eight minutes to impress the eight judges seated in the main Grand Stand. The "engine room," or rhythm section of each steel band, includes at least one conventional drum kit, tumba drums, maracas and "irons" - scrapped car-brake drums Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort...
King spent the early weeks of the new year flying around the country trying to drum up support for his poverty campaign but he found one of his toughest audiences back home in Atlanta...
KING PREACHED "THE DRUM MAJOR INSTINCT" AT Ebenezer that Sunday, Feb. 4. He freely adapted a sermon published under that title during his seminary years by evangelist J. Wallace Hamilton, based on the biblical story of two disciples who beseech Jesus for the most prominent eternal seats in heaven. Their desire springs from a universal impulse for distinction, said King--"this quest for recognition ... this drum major instinct." An extreme drum major "ends by trying to push others down to push himself up," he warned, driving racism in culture and arrogance in nations. Yet Jesus in the Bible account does...
...first time King flirted with martyrdom in a speech. One of the first profiles written about him during the bus boycott noted a "conspicuous thread of thanatopsis" in his private conversation as well. What emerged this Sunday was a brooding reverie on external and internal burdens from the drum major instinct. "And every now and then I think about my own death," he told his congregation. He gave fitful instructions for his own funeral service--"tell them not to talk too long"--hoping someone would mention "that Martin Luther King Jr. tried to give his life serving others." The eulogist...
...meeting were Undergraduate Council (UC) Liaison to the City of Cambridge Jeffrey Kwong ’09 and a group of five other undergraduates. Kwong should be commended for publicizing the progress of the Felipe’s license process and using House open lists to drum up student support. The lobbying Kwong led seems to have done the trick. We look forward to an all-out effort to secure Felipe’s a 4 a.m. license six months from now—a move that could have the potential to transform opportunities for late-night food...