Word: demoniacal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early one morning three years ago this week the curtains of Adolf Hitler's study in Berlin's huge Reich Chancellery stirred gently in the breeze. Inside, after seven nearly sleepless days of conferences and feverish meditation, the demoniac leader of Germany had reached his decision. A few minutes later, and hundreds of miles away, a German bomber snarled through the grey, drizzling Polish dawn and dropped a missile on the fishing village and air base of Puck. World War II had begun...
Rommel was well known to be a demoniac master of desert war, but neither the British nor the U.S. public was prepared for Tobruk's fall. For it followed weeks of such cheery headlines as these: Planes pound Axis units in Libya. . . . British in Libya mopping up. . . . Heroic stand at Bir Hachéim foils Rommel. . . . Axis road to Egypt barred. . . . Even two days after Tobruk fell, the New York World-Telegram still bleated: R.A.F. Blasts Nazis in Libya...
...every one of the Mozart E-flat? Is it because classical music is comparatively quiet and unexciting that it is so neglected? The E-flat symphony is, in my opinion at least, a greater masterpiece than the Pathetique. Into its simplicity of form is poured a poignancy, a demoniac violence every bit as powerful as that of the other. Rarely played, the E-flat is treated lavishly compared to most eighteenth-century music; this last week-end it received, by chance, performances both in symphony Hall land in the NBC studies...
Stressing the fact that "we are living through a transition period when blind forces are smashing the old patterns." Hopper pointed out our responsibility to the moral and economic cause of evolution in Europe against "demoniac revolutionary nihilism." It is the task of the United States to work with the combination of powers most likely to secure a permanent peace, according to Hopper...