Word: martially
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...Reminiscent of Oxford's 17th century dean, Dr. John Fell, whose reputation survives in one lethal quotation. He once threatened Poet Thomas Brown with university expulsion, promised to rescind the order if Brown could deliver an impromptu translation of Martial's 32nd Epigram ("Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare; Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te"). Brown's translation...
Fauré: La Bonne Chanson (Martial Singher, baritone, and instrumentalists from the Marlboro Music Festival; Columbia; and Gerard Souzay, baritone, accompanied by Dalton Baldwin, piano; Epic). Two new recordings of the nine songs Faure composed to the cycle of poems addressed by Verlaine to his fiancee ("One bright summer day the sun will second my joy The sky like a tall tent will wave around us"). As might be expected of the two leading interpreters of French art songs, both readings are of first quality. Singher, at his peak, is marred only occasionally by an overexpressive wobble. Souzay...
...American immigrant G.I. returning to his native village (James Darren), the cynical explosives expert (David Niven), the unresisting resistance heroines (Irene Pappas and Gia Scala), the good German, the bad German. There is also more than the usual helping of battlefield oratory, most of it delivered by that least martial of musical instruments, Peck's voice...
Radio stations, guarded by machine guns, rang with martial music and the stern decrees of the new Korean leaders. All political parties were banned, and most of the Cabinet ministers in former Premier John Chang's government were clapped in jail. Nine elected provincial governors as well as the mayors of the big cities were ousted and replaced by soldiers. Seventeen prosecutors investigating corruption for the old regime were arrested and jailed. Strikes were banned, and the seven-day work week was now mandatory. Along with known Communists, thousands of liberals were jailed, and politicians nervously avoided their...
...year in jail; when the police ran out of handcuffs, they lashed the prisoners together with ropes. To keep people at home nights, the authorities arrested 10,000 for violating the nightly curfew-including those who had to leave after dark for medical care. "Under martial law," snapped an officer, "you shouldn't get sick...