Word: dourness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would still have been a greater innovator than Jean Sibelius, now 82, and Richard Strauss, 84, both of whom barely got into the century musically. Prokofiev and Shostakovich are both deep in Stravinsky's debt. Only one other living composer seriously challenges him as a contemporary influence: dour, 73-year-old Arnold Schönberg, spiritual leader of the atonalists, whose theoretical contributions are great, though his output is small...
...more room, served simultaneously as carriers, leaders, patrollers, defenders against aircraft-and hazards to smaller craft. Turning and twisting at high speed to avoid bombs, their roaring wash flooded or capsized scores of loaded dinghies, launches, yachts. Collision in the dark, too, "was a great worry," reported Mr. Lowe, dour skipper of the tug Simla...
...Dour General Zaragoza had never expected such folly. There was just time to open fire with the fortress' guns, and to move the infantry to the top of the hill. As the red-bloomered French Zouaves charged smartly up the slope, the barefooted Indians mowed them down with 1812 muskets. Then machete-waving cavalrymen, led by a young Mixtec Indian named Porfirio Diaz, rushed in from the flanks, and the veterans of Sevastopol and Solferino knew that they were beaten. Leaving 1,000 dead, Lorencez began his retreat toward the Gulf...
...things go the way they've been going all year, the Jayvee baseball team should return from New Haven tomorrow with a victory in its season finale. Warren Berg's Freshman outfit seems doomed to end its campaign on a more dour note...
TIME'S correspondent wired: "Wallace has become a bitter, dour man with a developing persecution complex. He would like to succeed to the mantle of Roosevelt but he does not know how to meet the common man whom he champions. His manner repulses people, and he in turn gets more & more resentful. He is a bore. His speeches sometimes put people to sleep. He is completely humorless...