Word: gongs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonetheless, in Lower Manhattan's cobblestoned butter-and-egg wholesaling district, the cocky little National Stock Exchange made its debut amid the clink of champagne glasses and the clang of the trading gong...
Movable Peak. Red China was quick to take advantage of the strained relations between Nepal and India. Last fall Mahendra and Giri traveled to Peking, where they got the full treatment-little flower girls at the airport, a cymbal-and-gong concert, repeated toasts to eternal Chinese-Nepalese friendship. Peking proved amiable in demarcating the border between Red-run Tibet and Nepal, and even accepted a splendidly Oriental compromise on the question of who owns Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain. Foreign Minister Giri explains that both sides agreed that Chomolongma (the Tibetan name for Everest...
...events smashed this intellectual trade union: 1) a beery, gusty, word-wildered Welshman named Dylan Thomas and 2) World War II. Poet Thomas, with his golden rain of words and his great brass gong of a voice, reminded poetry of its origins in ritual and chant. And the war forced poets to face political, social and spiritual realities. At first, the horror of it all seemed to numb them; the war itself produced no genuinely great poetry in English. But such poets as Karl Shapiro, Randall Jarrell, Richard Eberhart and Britain's Henry Treece were moved to describe their...
Flower Drum Song is clearly photographed, and brightly colored. But the songs-except for a charming little villanelle sung by Actress Umeki-don't exactly ring the gong, and Choreographer Hermes Pan has apparently reworked some routines from Chu Chin Chow. Also, moviegoers may be disturbed to find that most of the Chinese characters in the picture are played by actors of various other Oriental extractions. Honest, fellows, they really don't all look alike...
From Rangoon's golden Shwe Dagon Pagoda, glistening under the monsoon rains, came the deep, resonant voice of Maha Ganda, the 25-ton bronze merit gong, notifying the worlds of spirit and man alike that a noble deed had been accomplished. Exactly 2,202 years after Buddhism was introduced within its borders, Burma reverted to the ways of its ancient kings and adopted Buddhism as its state religion...