Word: moods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sooner was Harry Truman back in Washington than White House aides hastened to spread the soothing word: the Boss was not in a vindictive mood. There would be no wholesale firings in the new Administration. But some changes were certainly in the works...
...bald, wizened little man whose greatest fear is that he won't live long enough to complete works he has started. Sixteen years ago he completed two acts of an opera, Moses and Aaron, but, he says, "I have not yet found the mood and power to compose the third act." Inspiration, he explains, "comes as mysteriously as hunger-and must follow the digestion of a lot of other things. One has to wait until one is called upon...
...poet and a craftsman hardly surpassed by any musician now among us. Of course, they were written nearly 40 years ago, and had been so successfully reviled by commentators . . . that the performance has an element of daring." Manhattan's New Friends of Music, in a daring mood too, is playing a season of Bach, Mozart, Brahms and Schoenberg...
...unsuccessful coming-out has on the creature who came out. Mr. Bush has a sense of character and he has a sense of narrative. But he confuses his reader far too often. He doesn't make his setting clear soon enough. He doesn't make his shifts from mood to mood easy enough to follow. And he doesn't quite manage to get across just what was wrong with the party, or with the girl, or with the girl's friends. He writes will enough in places so that there isn't any reason to suppose that he couldn...
...death, when he allowed their son to visit her. Out of the tragedy of their life, Meredith fashioned the stylized poetic sequence, Modern Love, fifty 16-line sonnets of what Sassoon calls "highly perfected workmanship, constructed as a finely woven monodrama, and abounding in memorable passages and variety of mood." Poet Sassoon had thought that it must have taken him at least three years to finish the work; to his astonishment, he learned when he began his biography that Meredith had written it in three months...