Word: clanging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Roman clang and massiveness, Coriolanus tells the tale of an inhumanly prideful patrician who almost singlehanded repels the invading Volscians, later is rejected by the fickle people he saved, vents his contempt by joining the enemy to turn on them. At the close, Sir Laurence dangles headfirst from a ten-foot rostrum while he is stabbed to death in a blood-drenched mob scene that is powerfully-and consciously-reminiscent of the battering of Mussolini's body...
...dreams that have shaped the U.S., Author Griffith has added his of a land "where differences in color and race are not falsely denied but make a competition in being the best . . . where nobility is not mere respectability and virtue does not produce a snigger; where the clang of work and the clamor of play attest to the common health; where enemies cannot reach us because our merit, and not our guns or our propaganda, has won the world to our side...
...canvas as a skinny, jet-black creature with a red face, carrying a naked pink lady across the peaks of the Himalayas. When he is not painting, he is praying. "His Majesty," an aide reports, "gets up at the most incredible hours of the morning to clang the cymbals...
This is conceivably the only novel ever written in which a boy tries to seduce a girl in a recumbent church bell. The would-be lovers fail, but that is because the clapper gives off a frightful clang that scares them both frigid. All of this will come as no surprise to fans of British Novelist Iris Murdoch (The Sandcastle), a philosophy-teaching Oxford don and an intellectual pixy whose wit ends in tears, whose sentences are transparent while her meanings are opaque...
...line, as hollered out by saggy, white-thatched Party Secretary Eugene Dennis, 53, and others of the hierarchy, had a familiar clang: U.S. foreign policy was "criminally dangerous," Ike "should be impeached," recognition of Red China would "make 600 million friends for America." But only 1,300 of the aging faithful were present in Manhattan's spacious (capacity: 2.760) Carnegie Hall to applaud, steadily but softly, at the 39th anniversary of the nation's dying Communist Party...