Word: attentat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left the theatre in a condition bordering on nervous breakdown. I felt as though I had been subjected to an attentat, to an assault, but I had no desire to throw myself in adoration before the two masters [Disney and Stokowski] who were responsible for the brutalization of sensibility in this remarkable nightmare. . . . A supreme insult to the composers. . . . The perverted betrayal of the best instincts, the genius of a race turned into black magical destruction. ... If the man [Beethoven] who turned against Napoleon had lived to see the inside of a Nazi concentration camp his torturers might have driven...
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