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...year when a welfare agency asked Coffe to promote a fund-raising campaign to benefit the elderly and indigent. Coffe did not like the idea of a charity appeal. "It's nothing," he says, "for a person with money to drop a coin or a bill into a tin...
...DOES all of this happen? Because the inmense majority of our countries are single producers: we are the countries of chocolate, bananas, coffee, tin, oil or copper. We are countries that produce raw materials and import manufactured articles: we sell low and buy high...
Sensitive Spirit. After the announcement that the school could take no new applicants, students set out with tin cans to seek donations from the neighborhood. It was a futile gesture (previous drives have raised merely 5% of the school's expenses). The only solution, apparently, lies in the public school system to which Harlem Prep was supposed to provide an alternative...
...feel that you have some good stuff in you," said Tin Pan Alley Publisher Max Dreyfus as he offered the 19-year-old composer a $35-a-week retainer. "It may take months, it may take a year, it may take five years, but I'm convinced that the stuff is there. Just stop in every morning, so to speak, and say hello...
...constantly claims, separate from his statements on the socialist soapbox, and yet justifies his views aesthetically. He insists very stubbornly on the distinction, saying that he would "never write a poem about the Social Democratic Party," but finds no contradiction in claiming that a book like The Tin Drum helps explain why Hitler came to power. The line between explanation and instruction is very fine and discovering where the two meet is likely to reveal the real focus of Grass's work, which is perhaps more than anything a kind of explanation to himself...