Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Julius jumped into his Land Rover and began beating through the bush. In flyblown Indian Ocean towns and sun-seared mud-hut villages in Chaggaland, he recruited new grass-roots leaders and urged participation in the self-help program...
First, Harry Smith appears as the Narrator (some will call him a villain, some will call him God). Seductive and compassionate, Smith jokes with his audience and plays with his fellows on the stage. His song sets the score: "Try to Remember, those days in September when Grass was Green and grain was yellow." It is a season of moonlight and magic; and no one is so entranced as young lovers...
...Grass The Tin Drum...
...kangaroo has every right to be called Australia's national emblem, though many Australians sometimes wish they had never heard of the beast. Anywhere from 6,000,000 to 16 million kangaroos roam the Australian plains, alternately drinking up the outback water supply and eating the best pasture grass. For these reasons alone, the nation's sheep herders and cattle ranchers not long ago decided the kangaroo had to go, and at last count their vendetta was producing 15,000 to 20,000 kangaroo carcasses a week, a high enough slaughter to prompt one New South Wales Labor...
...matter where he is, Harrington never lets you forget that he is a socialist iconoclast. His speech is spiced with phrases like "our quaint little economic system," "the good ol" American grass-roots system," and "pinch-penny politics." With tongue in check, he mentions "Barry Goldwater socialists"; a second later, he lashes out at the "great many people who profit from poverty in the United States." Always, he thinks in terms of an established structure which dominates not only politics, but all American society. "There is considerable institutional resistance to the 'War against Poverty.' The opposition is tenacious, but their...