Word: shoutingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...festivities began a day ahead of time as early arrivals gathered in the Deep River Inn, a bar on Main Street, to shout greetings, swap tales and compare instruments above the din of indoor fifing. Drummers, however, are usually kind enough not to play their instruments indoors; instead they rattle their sticks on the Formica tabletops. Unlike contemporary bands, fifers and drummers shun all modern innovations. Calfskin heads are used on drums instead of plastic ones, and a system of rope and leather ears is utilized to keep the heads taut, rather than metal rods. The fife must...
Some books make the reviewer want to shout; others, to weep; still others, to pontificate. All About H. Hatterr makes one simply want to point at the words on the page. When a novel speaks for itself with such a bizarre and delightful voice as this one does, to paraphrase would be travesty. What can be said in mere critical language, for example, about the following passage, which ends the book...
...political parties and seven trade unions, and cracked down hard on student dissidents and potential rivals alike. To charges of dictatorship he replies angrily: "It was the foreigners who taught Africans to boo their chiefs and who introduced the concepts of left and right. When I, as the chief, shout or seize my rod to chastise, I do not do so out of malice, but rather for the happiness of everyone...
...that the platform would be rushed, splitting of political hairs. The garments as rhetorical quibbling and upon first being exposed to the kind of debates that went on in the auditorium, one is tempted to see the arguticipants were intense- very intense. Most of the conference was conducted by shouting, and speakers were frequently interrupted by screams of angre from their ropponents. At times whole sections of the audie shout in unison such "BULLSHIT" or "POWER TO THE WORKERS," depending upon the ideology of the speaker. Several times the meeting broke down completely, and the chairman could exert no control...
...John Rinehart was a very able fellow in our class, but he hadn't very many close friends. He lived in Weld, and sometimes people would come and stand beneath the windows and shout up for their friends: "Oh, Mayfield." or 'Oh, Smith!' But they never called for Rinehart...