Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill was certainly conscious of the scene's aptness. This was a week in which all Britain was holding its breath. It was a week in which, to assuage the public thirst for revenge, the Government and R.A.F. had sanctioned a furious incendiary raid on Berlin, along whose Unter den Linden proud establishments like the State Opera and Prussian State Library were fired. It was a week in which the Germans began to talk again, loudly and confidently, of invading the British Isles. It was also a week in which Coventry had been blasted "worse than Coventry...
...Dalloway it was Shakespeare's Fear no more the heat o' the sun, Or the furious winter's rages...
...sheriff edged up to Pilgrimage Club headquarters, ordered the furious clubwomen to strike their banners, silence their band, close up their mansions. Next day the Pilgrimage Club ladies asked that the injunction be rescinded; the judge acquiesced, gave the rivals five days to plead their cases...
...sherzo thrown in, the extreme energy bursting forth at every point, all make of it something quite unique in concerto literature. Of course, it can be played any number of different ways. It can sound broad and serene as played by a Schnabel, or it may sound wild and furious as it does played by Horowitz. But which style is better must remain largely a matter of individual taste. The old Schnabel recording is a miracle in its way--quiet, restrained, noble--yet there is no denying that the music has bombast in it, and Horowitz, who has hardly been...
...Congress. A Time to Speak, a collection of MacLeish prose of the past decade, should reassure all but the most skittish. Though the original journalistic impact of some of the pieces has been softened by time, most of them show that even in the days of his most furious fellow-traveling Poet MacLeish was chiefly interested in asserting the importance of the poet's role in a world of social change...