Word: drumbeat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Drumbeat and Song's recovery with Wonderful Town combines the talents of the two female leads with a strong supporting cast in what is one of this season's most ebullient productions. The only regrets of last night's appreciative audience concerned the brevity of the show's run and the modesty of the cast in ignoring the repeated cries of 'encore...
...Carlos Ibanez struggled to hold the shoestring republic's frayed economy together, he leaves 170,000 unemployed out of a 2,000,000-man labor force, 1,000,000 homeless, a 10% slump in industrial production, an external debt of $718 million. Defeated Socialist Allende missed not a drumbeat. He promised welfare statism for all and an escape from "foreign capitalistic imperialism" into the never-never land of steak and wine that trade behind the Iron Curtain would bring...
...program music, more on the level of a movie sound track than a concert piece. The first movement, "Palace Square," evoked an atmosphere of imminent tragedy, with its ominous drumbeat in the background. The second, "January 9th," is a musical treatment of the mob scene on "bloody Sunday." The third, "In Memoriam," is a funeral hymn to the fallen heroes, based on revolutionary songs of the period. The fourth, "Tocsin," rising to a crashing coda, was described in a Moscow daily as "a call for tireless struggle for the highest ideals of mankind.'' The work evidently satisfied Moscow...
...Drumbeat Repetition. The old National Catechism phrased its lessons in adult language, relied on drumbeat repetition to teach difficult concepts that children later might grow to understand: "Was the Blessed Virgin preserved from original sin? Yes, the Blessed Virgin was preserved from original sin. This is why we say that she was conceived without sin." The new catechism's verse presentation is designed for emotional appeal...
...drumbeat of attack increased ominously. Marshal Zhukov, in measured words, told an armed forces rally that the four ousted leaders were guilty of "conspiratorial action." The Soviet army newspaper Red Star said that the accused had threatened to undermine the foundations of Soviet military security-a move "which would have played into the hands of the enemies of the Soviet state, the imperialist aggressors." Added the government newspaper Izvestia: "Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich, but especially Malenkov, are directly responsible for the disorganized state of Soviet agriculture during the past several years." Malenkov was also charged with "ignorance that retarded...