Word: tins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tin Drum, by Gunter Grass. A grotesque dwarfs-eye view of the Third Reich and its aftermath told by the most powerfully imaginative novelist to emerge in postwar Germany...
...Tin Drum, Grass...
...sarong costs a worker three months' pay, and one Indonesian airline pilot has complained that he can make ends meet only by smuggling in cameras from Hong Kong. Government-subsidized schoolbooks are too expensive for some students. There are periodic rice shortages, and production of rubber, copra, and tin on expropriated Dutch estates has declined sharply under the management of fumbling government bureaucrats. Students have staged demonstrations with banners screaming: "We are hungry...
...author of The Man with the Golden Arm seems determined to prove that it was written by a man with brass lungs and a tin ear. Who Lost an American? sounds like a bellowing recitative by a carnival barker who stops at nothing but to laugh at his own jokes. It takes Algren to foreign parts like New York, Paris, Barcelona, Dublin, Istanbul, Crete, and back, of course, to dear old untouchable Chicago. Through it all, Algren (complaining about Americans who complain about the lack of ham and eggs for breakfast) remains about the most militantly ham-and-eggs American...
...Introduction, Salinger (3, last week) 2. The Glass-Blowers, Du Maurier (2) 3. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (1) 4. Grandmother and the Priests, Caldwell (4) 5. The Sand Pebbles, McKenna (5) 6. Fail-Safe, Burdick and Wheeler (10) 7. The Moonflower Vine, Carleton (8) 8. The Tin Drum, Grass (7) 9. The Moon-Spinners, Stewart (6) 10. The Centaur, Updike...