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Buzz and Blast. Up on the stage can be found a numbing array of groups and soloists whose names dramatize the nihilism and brute force that have inspired the movement: Clash, Thunder-train, Weirdos, Dictators, Stranglers, Damned, and the demon-eyed New Yorker who could become the Mick Jagger of punk, Richard Hell. The music aims for the gut. Even compared with the more elemental stylings of 1950s rock 'n' roll-which it closely resembles -punk rock is a primal scream. The music comes in fast, short bursts of buzz and blast. Some groups have...
Kahn's idea is a simple one: although baseball is a game, not everyone plays it the same way. Of course, baseball is Jackie Robinson stealing home in a thunder of lethal spikes and cheery abandon, it is Joe DiMaggio gliding around second base without ever losing his cap, it is Willie Mays soaring through center field space, snaring a foolishly ambitious triple in mid-arc. But baseball is also a hungry kid with visions of a big league paycheck waging war in a dusty sandlot game, swallowing the lump in his throat as the big rainbow curve whirs towards...
...policy of dispensing aid and arms according to his measure of the rectitude of various societies-sometimes does seem more emotional than practical. Add to that Rosalynn's and Secretary Cyrus Vance's Latin American entreaties on human rights and U.N. Ambassador Andy Young's thunder against white governments, past and present, and there are days when it seems we are getting nothing so much as a sermon...
...over four days of competition and still shot a three over par 283. Bolt's victory was a popular one since he was a favorite son from Haworth, Oklahoma. Although Bolt was an outstanding player, he was even better known for his tempestuous temperament, which earned him the label "Thunder Bolt...
...Before Fairbank there was a darkness about Asia. Every course ended in 1793 with the death of the emperor Ch'ien-lung. Everything else was journalism," says Theodore H. White '38, the author of The Making of the President books and Thunder Out of China, who was Fairbank's first undergraduate tutee. Fairbank, who is retiring this year as Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History after 41 years on the Faculty, led the way out of that darkness, making modern China part of the American intellectual world. With a single-minded devotion that America's China missionaries would have envied...