PROTESTS in Argentina are normally clamorous affairs, raucous with the din of pot-banging, drum-beating and slogan-shouting.
"Conservatives can look at the tattoo-wearing, drum-beating people and say, 'Of course they're not going to get jobs,' " he said.
It would be useful for audience members to contemplate Mr. Arlt's drum-beating program notes before the performance; they could be otherwise clueless.
We'll never know if McEnroe, one of the all-time doubles greats who won 18 of 20 Davis Cup matches, could have, at 41, better dealt with the chanting, flag-waving and drum-beating than Leach.
There are the flag-waving, drum-beating, strictly heroic versions, like the film Laurence Olivier made as a morale raiser during World War II, and the cynical, war-is-lies approaches that have pretty much stayed in vogue since the Vietnam War.
Consider this: in 2002, the team at California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that pioneered the DMFC a decade ago announced a breakthrough that would be bad news for conventional batteries—"a portable energy source that may some day give that hot pink, drum-beating bunny a run for its money".
This is blood-pounding, drum-beating stuff (it was the favourite of the late Paul Foot, whose book Red Shelley tried gallantly to conscript the poet to the ranks of another revolution) but if you don't chance to know its context it may be as readily pressed into service by any movement that calls on people to awake.
Untrammeled Lives!" There are examples, too, of the papers that gave yellow journalism its reputation, including Hearst's own drum-beating issue of The New York Journal on Feb. 17, 1898, that presaged the Spanish-American War with a banner headline: "DESTRUCTION OF THE WAR SHIP MAINE WAS THE WORK OF AN ENEMY".
Pardon me if I vent my exasperation with all the Washington policymakers, past and present, surrounded by their so-called experts and those war-drum-beating pundits in the media.
