Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hall, honored Vivaldi, Beethoven, De Sabata, and Stravinsky with his reading of their works. De Sabata, an Italian "modern," was represented by "Gethsemane," a symphonic poem, vague, impressionistic-night in a lonely garden, a stern voice breaking through the darkness to speak the awful law of redemption through renunciation; dawn, stillness, prayer; carefully explained but shallow, unoriginal music for which even the philanthropic genius of a Toscanini could not achieve distinction. But a great public on its knees to a great conductor forgave him for playing it, lavished him with applause, drew rapture from the Vivaldi, from the Beethoven...
...abandoned? Why were these temples, palaces and astronomical observatories of cunningly carved white limestone suddenly left to the bats, the lizards and the sinister little owls the later Indians called "moan birds" and associated with death? It is conceivable that any rice might forget its humble beginnings in the dawn of history. But how came legend to be so silent about the collapse of a cultivated nation whose greatest cities we can now prove were inhabited in the first six centuries of the Christian era?. One reiterates the query, one gropes for an answer, till the imagination aches...
...local priest, one Kosheliev, caused the suspected culprits to be immersed in a freezing stream for an hour, and then beaten into insensibility. This did not however constitute the "ordeal," which depended upon whether those being "tried" recovered consciousness during the night (innocent) or at dawn (guilty...
...Vchov and Mme. Petrova unfortunately recovered at dawn, and their heads were promptly crushed "with a heavy axle beam" while the mob howled "to drive away their evil spirits...
...ordeal, however. The ordeal is to recover consciousness. And nothing could be more systematically fitted to the American critic's haphazard dicta than the impartially unjust manner in which the natives pronounce judgment. He who comes to his senses during the night is innocent; he who awakes at dawn is guilty...