Word: hammered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator McCarthy is serious about changing our foreign policy, I think he should look beyond the present campaign and beyond Vietnam. Kennedy will be carrying the anti-Johnson message to the country. There is no need for McCarthy to echo him. Instead, McCarthy should hammer away at the issue where Kennedy is as weak as Johnson--our foreign policy in general, as opposed to our Vietnam policy in particular. Though it is inevitable that McCarthy will bow out of the campaign eventually, his staying in at this point could be of crucial importance to our country if (and, I think...
Wendell's ablest successors in the Golden '80's were George B. Morrison '83, two-year winner of the Intercollegiate mile, Charles H. Kip '83, the outstanding shot putter and hammer thrower of his day, and middistance runners William H. Goodwin '84 and Wendell Baker...
...Masquerade (1966) was the most recently composed and the most colorfully exciting offering. Beginning with a stunning passage for bassoons, saxes, and solo horn, the composition also contains a lovely oboe solo, and an evocative passage for flute, piccolo, and bass drum side. In addition, Persichetti calls for hammer and anvil, four timpani, xylophone, sizzle cymbal, ratchet, marimba sticks on suspended cymbals, and bare hands on snare drum. At the end of the composition, all these returned in a brilliant overall unity...
...HAMMER Manhattan...
Flying Sparks. Like his music, Nielsen's temperament blended traditional peasant qualities with a progressive sophistication and disenchantment. Born on the bucolic island of Fyn, he made his first "instrument" from various lengths of cordwood, which he banged with a hammer; later he learned violin and trumpet from his father, a house-painter-laborer who played at village dances. He was barely 14 when he left home with a military band to start his career. For most of his life he had to play in orchestras, conduct or teach to support himself: when the Royal Orchestra premiered his Symphony...