Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grandeur of its architecture in sound. He nearly does so in this performance conducted by Eugene Ormandy. The Philadelphia Orchestra, augmented by extra horns, winds and percussion, and the Temple University Choirs of 250 voices are welded into an instrument of blockbusting power and variety: four brass bands blaze the summons to the Last Judgment, and the woodwinds whisper as Tenor Cesare Valletti sings the poetic Sanctus...
...burning hulk sank in 400 fathoms (2,400 ft.) of the Bahamas' Northwest Providence Channel. At last count, 458 persons had lived through the disaster; 91 had died. The cause of the blaze was a mystery. All that remained of the Yarmouth Castle was four empty lifeboats, scattered debris and an oil slick...
...that is sometimes the Amazon and sometimes the River of Life. Then one day he looks into a forest pool and sees a face: "A face bare with privation but the wide eyes were clear, and behind the face the clouds of heaven rolled majestically across the world." A blaze of sunlight sparkles on the water. "He entered the sun's sparkle and drank. Mineral and cold as a prairie river, the water bathed his heart. He felt himself open like a flower." That night he built an enormous fire to inform the universe that he was there...
Water directed at the blaze from an extended aerial ladder seems to douse the fire. The flames disappear, and members of the rescue squad appear at the windows of adjacant suites and bed rooms...
...portent was fulfilled in a blaze of genius for which the bird of the sun is no intemperate metaphor. For seven centuries La Commedia, which in 14,233 lines of lordly language describes the poet's descent into hell and ascent into heaven through the refining fires of purgatory, has been widely considered the greatest poem ever composed; and its author has been virtually deified by the critics. T. S. Eliot pronounced him "the most universal of poets in the modern languages," and added: "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion; Dante the greatest altitude and greatest depth...