Word: shoutingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before he left, Nixon said: "I know you want to get the war over. Sure you came here to demonstrate and shout your slogans on the ellipse. That's all right. Just keep it peaceful. Have a good time in Washington, and don't go away bitter...
...Need to Shout. There remained the danger of infection, especially severe in hip surgery because so much tissue must be exposed. With Charnley's new plastic techniques, the infection rate was 4%. That was too high by his standards. Then he devised an elaborate suction system for his operating room. Each member of the surgical team was fitted with a flexible tube, long enough to permit free movement, that ran up his back and was connected to a narrow steel tube that encircled the face and had holes through which his exhaled breath was drawn away. "It makes communication...
...stop and look at the waves rolling in and out. They are pretty big; they looked enormous to us then. And here is our game: As a wave runs back down the crest of the beach, we follow it, right to the edge of the water; and we shout at it, taunt that last dying moment of the huge wave that had come in before. But now another one, which it seems to us must have begun miles and miles out to sea, is cresting, curling over on itself as if in slow motion, and we watch it transfixed...
...friends known as Mad Dogs and Englishmen). It can back him up in anything from jazz to low-down blues to gospel singing. Gruff and virile of tone, but now obviously a star, Joe belts out his songs as to the manna born. He knows just when to shout, just when to pout, just when to let a phrase die with a low, sad whimper. At the Fillmore, Cocker's group came on, in fact, a bit like a white revival meeting. With his friends churning away at an old Julie London hit, Cry Me a River, Joe created...
Pain eats up energy. Politics does not encourage precise thought. "When you begin to shout and find the smile fixing itself on your mouth," Grass says, "you know you're really in politics." Political campaigns are also distracting?as Norman Mailer, the one major writer in the U.S. whose recent course seems to parallel Grass's, recently found out. There are critics who say that Grass will turn from writing to action for good if Willy Brandt should offer him a big enough job in the new government. Grass denies that. As proof, he holds up not only his work...