Word: howl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When they first saw the budget, Congressmen of both parties let out a bipartisan howl. Then they quieted down to plot strategy and develop proposals of their own. By last week trial balloons containing alternative budget plans were floating above Capitol Hill. For President Reagan, the question had become when, not whether, he would join the budget bargaining. "If you want to present a comprehensive proposal," he told G.O.P. leaders, "then we'll be happy to talk...
...history of radio in Minneapolis produces "Wingo Beals and His Blue Movers," who lost their SunRise Waffle show at 5 a.m. daily to Slim Graves and His Southland Sheiks, featuring Courteous Carl Harper, the Guitar Man. "Rise and shine," Slim would tell his listeners every day, "sit up and howl, there's daylight in the swamps...
Fritz Zorn is a pseudonym, chosen spitefully and well. In German, Zorn means anger. This rancorous testament is the work of a sensitive mind slowly unhinged, a desolate howl against the inhuman condition. It is a sound familiar to doctors. Occasionally, if the writer is skilled enough, laymen can hear it. In Mars even the whispers are deafening. -By Richard Stengel
...last dance is Ro Bam Kak Se Ko, the rice cultivation dance, presented in five parts. The first is the planting of seeds. The second is a dance of three scarecrows (the little ones in the audience howl at the masks). The third part is the cutting of the rice, and fourth is the tying. Finally comes the celebration of the harvest. The children prance under a full moon. Over the loudspeaker an announcer explains: it was a good year...
...article on Allen Ginsberg's appearance at Columbia University described the reading of Howl as a hoot [Dec. 7]. I'm sure that Ginsberg and many other people realize that excesses took place in the late '60s and find some humor in them. But Reporter Henry apparently views this humor with a disparaging slant that induces readers to avoid the valid social questions arising from those turbulent times. These issues are what Howl is all about...