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Freberg was an enormously talented composer whose intricate rhymes and uncanny ear for song styles would have made him a Tin Pan Alley success even without the satire. On his great United States of America album, Freberg portrayed Ben Franklin as a prickly conservative who balked at signing Tom Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. The two founding fathers sing a number that includes this exchange...
...streets of Manhattan, the connection was just fine: data moved easily to and from the Merlin, and even Web pages could be loaded within a reasonable amount of time. But when I was not at rest--when I was, in fact, hauling along on an eastbound train--two tin cans and a string would have made a tighter connection. I found it all but useless. I could grab a Web page only if I was sitting at a station; as soon as the train began to move again, the data stream was broken. Bad Seedy Petey...
AWARDED. To GUNTER GRASS, 71, provocative German writer whose explorations of his country's torturous century established him as one of the most esteemed voices of the postwar era; the Nobel Prize for Literature; in Stockholm. The jury predicted that Grass's The Tin Drum (1959) would become "one of the enduring literary works of the 20th century...
Little Oskar the Drummer has finally conquered the world. His creator, German author G?nter Grass, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature Thursday, with his "Tin Drum," published in 1959, cited as "one of the enduring literary works of the 20th century." "It?s an excellent award, 30 years overdue, but better late than never," says TIME literary critic Paul Gray. "?The Tin Drum? was a pioneering attempt at new fictional forms, a kind of postmodern attempt at super-realism to deal with the bizarre and ugly rise of Nazism. It was an attempt to explore history through a kind...
...forget made its author a legendary social critic and literary provocateur. He became strongly identified with Germany?s political left, and in 1990 was criticized for rejecting the speedy reunification of East and West Germany. "In his later writing, he took partisan political positions," says Gray. "But in ?The Tin Drum? he sides broadly with humanity against Nazism. It?s one of the great books of the ?50s and ?60s in any language." One group that won?t be impressed by the Nobel Committee?s choice: Oklahomans for Children and Families. The morality watchdog group last year managed to convince...