Word: ardors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playing variations on this theme, Dr. Hanson implied connections between dissonance and passion, sex, revolutionary ardor and crime. Thus when Wagner, in the Lohengrin Prelude, wished to evoke virginal purity, he used far fewer dissonances than in the Tannhduser Bacchanale. Palestrina's contemporary, Don Carlo Gesualdo, a 16th-Century rapscallion who ended by hacking his wife to pieces with a knife, used far more dissonances than pious Palestrina...
...might continue in this vein with ardor...
...plans, and the Army's recently-formed Enlisted Reserve Plan have demonstrated that colleges have a vital part to play in our war effort. Men who think immediate service more important than completing their education have the expressed wishes of the Armed Forces to cool their ardor...
...cold, wet morning and the sight of cold bayonets chilled the ardor of strikers and nonstrikers alike. Gates were barred to them. Mr. Hill was forced to vacate. After officially firing every man jack in the place, Colonel Jones and officers of the Air Corps began rehiring workers from the sober crowd which stood outside, picking those who were on the payroll before the strike on Sept. 30, whether union or nonunion. By afternoon, half the plant's normal personnel had been restored and work was humming...
...through labyrinths of bureaucracy. For any broad-scale ruling they had to go to the purchasing division, then to production, then to priorities. The rulings had to be reconciled. In the process thousands of hours of vital time were lost in conferences, argument and devitalizing hiatuses while heels and ardor cooled...