Word: louders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...also a less poetic one. In The Tempest, with its wonderful language, words speak louder than actions; not everybody in the Webster production knew how to utter them. Arnold Moss was a sonorous and commanding Prospero, Frances Heflin a sensitive Miranda. But as Ariel, Ballerina Vera Zorina let a good many speeches dwindle, and her grace was cold rather than sunlit. As Caliban, Negro Actor Canada Lee could not (like Shakespeare) make poetry of ugliness. Stressing the rather dull comedy also shattered the mood; the revolving stage was more practical than atmospheric. This generation may never see a livelier Tempest...
...buzzing in the plane grew louder. Pilot Zerbe did not like the sound. With Copilot C. W. Wages at the controls, Zerbe and Corporal Gilbert Sies wrestled the depth charge to a side door, dumped it overboard from 10,000 feet. It exploded almost at once...
...months the opposition in Brazil had been getting louder, bolder. There was talk of an underground political party, the National Democratic Union (TIME, Jan. i). Brazilians wondered, hopefully: was their Dictator Getulio Vargas growing old and gentle? The answer...
...however phony, was already under way. Vice President Juan Domingo Perón (who wants to be President, even if he has to be elected) was stumping the country, shouting his love for the common man. With an Allied victory in sight, democratic sound effects in Argentina were growing louder & louder...
...rostrum stumbled Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, the Catholic professor of history who had led the Resistance movement. Like France, he was sick-with grippe or from an overdose of medicine. He was speaking to Moscow, but his voice was scarcely audible. Back benchers cried: "Louder! Louder!" Bidault mumbled: France has no intention of taking part in any anti-Russian "western cordon.. . . We certainly want an alliance in the west but we also want an alliance in the east of Europe." Then he cut his remarks short, slumped down like an old man. On the Government bench, General Charles...