Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...climactic number, the Fourth Symphony by Brahms, is charged with an emotional power that makes it well-suited for the conclusion of a repertoire that is at the start descriptive and interpretative. The emotional fire of this composition in E minor never Mazes into a lurid display nor dies down to lukewarm embers, but always remains at a steady white heat. The musical skill and energetic orchstration that marks Brahms symphonic work is especially apparent in this Fourth composition...
...rangers fighting a forest fire in the Santiago Canyon region in California their messenger dog came crawling on his belly. His eyes were red from the smoke, his fur burned by shoots of fire. While rangers comforted him, he licked his burns, fell asleep, whimpering. This must not happen again. So District Ranger Bill Freer made him an asbestos coat, good protection. Asbestos, a mineral found notably in the Province of Quebec, does not decompose under even relatively high degrees of heat. Nor does it allow heat to pass through it easily. Another characteristic is its resistance to most acids...
...wove shrouds of asbestos fibre in which to cremate their dead. Thus the human ashes were kept from mixing with the wood ashes of the pyre. The Greeks also used asbestos cloth for handkerchiefs, and Charlemagne is said to have had an asbestos tablecloth which he threw into the fire to cleanse...
...Building of the Parthenon", Professor Chase, Fogg Museum, Fire Arts...
Undergraduates enter classes nowadays which are guaranteed to turn them out "sure-fire" playwrights or novelists or short-story writers. They specialize in something, which will bring them speedy fame and wealth, and care little for the pleasures of quiet, leisurely reading. Oscar Wilde said that our youthfulness was our oldest tradition. "It has been going on now for 300 years." Perhaps it is now giving way to the beginnings of a new one, noted these last fifty years a flair for early specialization. The broad base of the pyramid may be done away with altogether, and the apex will...