Word: fervent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conducer Thompson Stone added force and precision to a fervent chorus that was obviously enjoying itself immensely. Its exuberance brought out the utmost from Handel's skillful use of such words as "Surely," "Wonderful," or "Hallelujah." The orchestral accompaniment, revised first by Mozart and later by Robert Franz, was capably played by 55 members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...Jordan Hall they opened the evening with Mendelssohn's Quartet in E-flat Major, which even the most fervent Romanticist must realize is among fervent Romanticist must realize is among Mendelssohn's lesser works. Written at an early age, (Opus 12), it could only have been picked of the Quartet because of its opportunities for technical virtuosity. In deed, Cellist Mischa Schneider, perhaps the most impressive of he four, makes the most of his opportunity. The second movement, a Canzonetta, provides him with a superlative vehicle for pizzicato and upper register proficiency. Violist Boris Kroyt gets his chance to highlight...
Victors & Vanquished. Next day the accused passed before the judges, entering their fervent pleas of "not guilty." It was clear that the men whose brass-knuckle philosophy had brushed aside not only legalisms but law itself would seek refuge in legalistic arguments. The defense presented a motion "in re Göring et al," questioning the legal basis of the trial, which was promptly dismissed by the bench. The main defense points...
Among the opportunists, perverts, gangsters and men of distorted genius who rose to power in Hitler's Germany, Dr. Robert Ley was an exception. The boss of Germany's Labor Front was a rather ordinary little man, fond of his bottle and frantically fervent in his adulation of Hitler and Naziism. "National Socialism has made an end to the bone-softening doctrine of life negation," he once said. "Germans are fanatics of life." When he was arrested last May, he moaned: "Life [without Hitler] does not mean a damn thing...
...first contemporary study of the poet who became the most influential editor of his day, believes that Henley can best be understood through the psychological theories of the late Alfred ("Inferiority Complex") Adler (TIME, Sept. 10). Years of suffering and physical inferiority, argues Author Buckley, aroused in Henley a fervent, bigoted passion for the vigorous, "masculine" things of life and art, and a corresponding contempt for all that was "effeminate" and decadent. The theme of Author Buckley's study is the effect of this "activist" philosophy upon English literature in the last 20 years of the 19th Century...